• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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        9 months ago

        Or, you know, someone who looses the popular vote to loose an election.

        Or, multiple parties that actually have different platforms.

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      9 months ago

      There was the big election where the sitting president was replaced. I guess that’s something.

      • Jazzy Vidalia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        Except when it doesn’t happen:

        • Bush II did not win the election, he was appointed before the recounts were even tallied.

        • Trump was appointed to the presidency after losing the election in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by the Electoral College. Hilary won by 3M votes or 2% of the vote.

        Literally two presidents during my lifetime failed to win the popular vote and every time this occurred it was to the benefit of a largely unpopular political party who used technicalities built into the Constitution to overturn the democratic will of the people. Funny how it never has worked in the opposite direction, almost as if it was built-in with that idea in mind.

        We do not have a democracy, we have a sham system that puts the interests of business before the interests of people.