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Is it? A simple boolean choice and you give total carte blanche to anybody got elected?

I think a good chunk of the voters cast their choice assuming that there would be checks and balances.

Sure there are also many, many trump voters who really wanted exactly this. But they are not the majority of the people.


A winner takes it all system, where some votes are worth much more depending on where you live, isn't a very democratic system.


It may be an acceptable compromise if the two alternative options weren't so extremely unpopular with the other side. That's why the checks and balances are required.


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If they are, then they aren't paying enough attention, or are spectacularly ignorant about how dangerous all of this is.


Please read more carefully what I wrote. Most trump voters may well he on board but that doesn't mean that most of the overall voters are.

A fraction of people who voted for Trump thought he would be like Trump 1.0 and just wanted to stop the woke drift of the democrats and/or didn't feel represented by a non-white+woman president.

We can debate how small that fraction is but it likely affected the election results.


I did read. I think the fraction you are mentioning is quite small if it exists at all. Elon was the reason for a vast majority of the people I know voting for him - it's not even close


I think you may be the one in a bubble.

I don't think the average conservative grandma is really in favour of the chaos that Elon is unleashing.

The only reasons they voted for Trump is that they thought they were against total debauchery of the left and the trans activism and whatnot.

If that grandma could choose between an old school conservative and these clowns she will choose the old school conservatives.

Yes it's a winner take all system, yes that's how it works. But don't use that to justify that whatever the winner does is what all people actually wanted because it's just not true.




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