I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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    2 months ago

    No, but it at least prevents the appearance of a “mandate.” Trump claims that he not only won the popular vote but also the electoral college so that means we’re all totally cool with whatever he wants to do whatsoever.

    They have less of an argument if more people voted against him, but our stupid system still gave him power.

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      No, but it at least prevents the appearance of a “mandate.”

      This is such a liberal take. They would have acted exactly the same whether they had the ‘spirit of the nation’ behind them or not. Stop picking fights of symbolic victories.