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haele

(12,660 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 12:33 AM Jan 2017

Y'know, more than half of eligible voters didn't or couldn't vote...

So the most any candidate in 2016 can claim might be 25% of the vote from the citizens of the US. And of that 25%, could even half of those voters be true supporters?

So, PINO Trump and the GOP are thinking they've a mandate to do whatever they want in a country where they only really have at best 15% support for just one of their positions.

Many of the non-voters and those who voted only because they were against his primary opponent will join the opposition as he and President Bannon start really fucking with the Constitution. The non-voters may have been disgusted with the candidates, but they will not stand silent as their rights are being taken away.
There are far more people who did not vote for Drumpf than voted for him. And that is not something I think they are considering.
Or perhaps they think that 85% of the country are too stupid and weak to be of any concern to them. Time will tell.

Haele.

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