• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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    We only have 2 major political parties, and one of them has decided science and learning are evil…and like half the country votes for them. We’re completely fucked.

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      Correction: half of the voters vote for them. If all the apathetic people started to vote, Republicans would be forced to adapt or would never win any election anymore.

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        That’s exactly why Republicans fight against early voting, Mail voting, absentee voting, etc. If you make it too easy to vote, the single mom working 2 jobs might actually be able to work vote, and they absolutely DO NOT want that.

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        Yup, in total numbers, the apathy party is a clear lead ahead of the Democrats and unaligned voters keeping a spirited competition for second, and Republicans place in a solid 4th.

        The problem is that FPTP doesn’t consider non-participation and the unaligned voters aren’t an organized party and oh yeah the Republicans are hell bent on codifying that being more spread out entitles them to be more equal than others at the ballot box.

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        I mean tbf Erdogan mostly lost his shit after it became obvious that being Turkey but not laicite doesn’t magically make the cypress question go away during accession negotiations.

        That one ultimately bit the Cypress Turks in the but though, now they’re starting to worry about Turkey annexing them because of Erdogan.