• buttwater [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    20 days ago

    Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory represented the highest popular vote turnout in American history, receiving 81 million votes with “66% voter turnout”. Considering that the population in 2020 was 331 million (81÷331), only 24% of Americans, less than a quarter, voted for Joe Biden. Using this same formula Trump’s recent election was made possibly by only receiving votes from 22% of the population. Consistently, fewer than half of all Americans participate in the Democratic process

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      That’s all true but I don’t think that actually proves that the US isn’t a democracy. Australia has mandatory voting, nearly everyone votes in every election, and Australia has no more functional a democracy than we do.

      • sgtlion [any]@hexbear.net
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        The point isn’t about who voted, but moreso just an indication that such a small portion of the public actually choose to support the government. Therefore it isn’t representative

        Obviously mandatory voting doesn’t make people choose to support a bourgeois government any more because it still doesn’t solve the problem or give people real choice