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More Americans believe Bad Bunny embodies the country’s values better than Donald Trump
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What are US values? Imperialism, corruption, racism, intimidation, doing whatever you want if you have enough power...?
Depends on what you mean. US values as in the rulers of the country or US values as in the major of its people?
Aren't these the same? The rulers are elected by the people.
Sounds like you don’t understand the people of America. Yes, the people vote and we have an electorate that is supposed to vote on what people want.
However, a vast majority of Americans do not turn out to vote. Either they can’t because of logistics (e.g., gerrymandering, can’t get time off of work, etc), they abstain, or some other reason. We still, historically, have under half of the population actually turn out to vote. Voter turnout graph of the United States by share of population.
For most people not voting is a choice. It's accepting whoever wins.
Just curious, but do you have statistics to back that up or are you just angry with Americans and making a statement?
As an American, I don’t even know what most people’s decision to not vote is beyond a multitude of reasons I have read about.
As you say, it's a decision (a choice). That's all I'm saying as well.
Tbf the president is elected by States, not the people. Process is known as "Electoral College."
States don't have to vote as their population did, they can vote complete opposite if they want.
CGP-gray video "loophole that could end electoral college" is pretty short explanation.
But they have voted according to the will of the people and this was it.
If everyone was electable, that statement might hold true. In the current system, people vote for the lesser evil.
I get your point, there are many elections where people vote for the lesser evil. But voting for Trump two times, in my view, wasn't voting for the lesser evil.
Trump was the lesser evil in many minds apparently. Still, equating a whole population with the leader it elects is too drastic a shortcut. Just like I don't want to be identified with any of the idiots at the tops of the many hierarchies above me.
Well hierarchies beside the goverment, like companies, work more like old world nobility where any jackass can be on the top because their grandfather made or did something neat one time. Why would you be identified with that?
Never met a Musk-fan I take it.
Bad Bunny may indeed be more in line with US ideals, but Trump is like the actual country incarnated into human form.
Unlimited power for the nepo babies of wealthy families.