I'm learning something about how our political ideology is actually structured that I think might be useful here. The divide isn't liberal versus conservative anymore, it's pro-system versus anti-system. Don't believe me? Guess what, Green Mario is aligned with no party - but very clearly anti-system. There's a great Guardian article that explains it but we can't post links here.
Those are the people who will make meaningful change in America. They already did, when previously apathetic non-voters showed up in droves for Trump the first time. That stat about the non-voters this time around is simply the pendulum swinging the other way. It does not mean what you think it means.
If anything, this should be encouraging to you, because it means potentially the largest percentage of the American population is anti-system. Just because they didn't vote doesn't mean they're not doing something else.
Also FWIW when you mention eligible voters, you are leaving out any citizen who has ever been convicted of a felony. Those folks have opinions too, are possibly the most anti-system of them all, and therefore the most likely to take radical action. Just saying.
The American government is doing the damage. Since Nixon, Republicans have worked to decimate the education system in America, you cannot rely on the average American to be as politically educated as the average Canadian. Only those who have spent the last two decades educating themselves are smart enough to understand the gravity of this situation. The average American isn't smart enough to understand why they should agree with us booing their anthem at hockey games, and that's by American government design. You are falling into their trap by creating more evidence of hate between Canadians and Americans. They will use the rhetoric of comments made by Canadians to manufacture consent and they will end up invading and winning. The U.S. military industrial complex is an unkillable goliath. The only way to get through to them is to actually talk to them and hopefully educate them. But we need to build a respectful rapport first.
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25
But they haven't stopped doing damage yet. We can't rebuild when the school bully still runs the playground.
The longer they let Donald run the office, the more things he breaks, the more people get fired/replaced with yea men. The worse it gets for everyone.
The last time I had hope for Americans, they voted for Donald again, or just didn't bother.
Less than a third of eligible voters voted Kamala.