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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Voters chose the option furthest right

Politicians picked their voters in order to guarantee this outcome. Gerrymandering, mass disenfranchisement along social and ethnic lines, vote caging, intimidation, misinformation, straight up sabotage of voting venues... It happens all the time in liberal democracies, particularly in poorer, more homogeneous, and more rural neighborhoods.

As soon as the politicians fuck up on the math and a socialist breaks through (as with AOC beating Crowley back in '18 or Mamdani trouncing Cuomo last week), you get to see the "moderates" and their conservative cats' paws rush in to subvert the popular will.

This happens every time the left most option isn’t chosen.

The joke is how quickly a government will move to the right when the left-most option is chosen.