You know the only US election where voters outnumbered nonvoters was 2020, right?
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That "lesser evil" works well, you must admit.
So it's all functioning as designed. BoTh PaRtIeS blame the other for their failures and lack of progress, neither could exist without their evil twin.
They have no actual platform other than wealth acquisition, those issues that they deem important for an election cycle are "bait".
For example, Biden's bait was "15 an hour". The American voters took the bait and elected him; no minimum wage increase.
Trump's bait was "no war". The American voters took the bait and elected him, so... war.
Biden and Ds could have passed minimum wage bill easily. The "super majority requirement" is a parliamentary rule that can be changed whenever they would like with majority vote (they circumvent super majority all the time, see "exceptions to nuclear option", like budgets)
Most American voters have no idea that this is so, and it works very well to deceive the majority of them right out in the open. Blatantly and repeatedly.
I vote every election, and you should too! It's funny
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No offense, but for the population at large, was there a meaningful choice?
The side that really wanted this might have been a smaller minority than the ones that did not, but ultimately they were not only far for violent (in every meaning of the word and method) but also had control of the police and the courts, meaning murderers routinely got away with it while the opposing leadership and even rank and file got murdered, received very long prison sentences that removed them from society entirely, or even got framed for murders and executed or lynched for it.
The average person does not now, or have they ever, dictated anything. Also as it stands there is no such thing as an 'average' person by any metric.
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