Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.
Over half of Americans voted for this.
Trump didn’t receive a majority of the votes, and 64% of eligible voters voted. So, not even a third of voters voted for this.
A non-vote is still a vote
And they sure as shit didn’t vote against it then did they
Trump won the popular vote
And 49.8% of votes
And in every state they shifted towards Trump, even if it didn’t flip.
Americans are getting what they wanted. Across ages and demographics, they got what they wanted.
Majority is over half or 50% + 1. And we have a very high level of purposeful disenfranchisement. Gerrymandering, restriction of voting places, removal of mail-in votes, no voting holiday, voter ID laws, purging of vote roles with no way to renew your registration in time, two parties that are ever marching rightward away from most American’s policy preferences.
Like, be mad at the people who voted for this, but it’s not even close to most of us. They’re unpopular, and most people don’t want this shit. There are more of us than there are of them so stop acting like you’ve already lost and that we deserve this. We didn’t and we don’t.
Nobody is gonna argue that voter disenfranchisement doesn’t happen. But you would be naive to think it accounts for all, much less most, of non voters. Certainly a distressingly large amount don’t vote out of laziness, however an even larger percentage don’t vote because they don’t feel they’re heard or cared about. Because politicians don’t speak to them and their needs. Call them discourage voters if you want call them abandoned voters if you want, call them whatever you want but the point is they’re out there and they’re being ignored so they stopped bothering.
Not that that absolves them of all guilt though. These people didn’t show up at primaries. They didn’t force the political discourse to follow them, and it is hard to do especially without billions of dollars to help, but that’s the only way to keep it.