Democracy is dead because America would rather elect a male that jerks off a microphone than a woman.

Already heard “unlikable” again last night. Right. Fool us once.

This analysis on Tildes was spot on: https://tildes.net/~health.mental/1jwf/american_election_mental_health_thread#comment-e0uw

Perhaps if we had embraced the working class whites 20 years ago, things would be different today. Perhaps we could have working and lower class folks of all backgrounds voting for abortion rights, women's rights, labor rights, and gay rights. Maybe they would be our most loyal allies. But instead, we abandoned them and let the wolves pretend to be their friends.

Don't be fooled. Trump won because over 70 million Americans would rather have him than a woman.

"Parties? Were we're going, we don't need parties."

I live in a deep red state where my vote effectively does not count. Yesterday morning, I woke to an absurd amount of hip/back pain and could barely stand up. Yet I still drug my ass to the polls and stood in line for my turn to vote.

Whatever happens, I blame the fickle morons who stayed home. The parties, platforms, politics, etc. are what they are, if you can't be bothered to at least vote for the lesser of two evils, then you deserve everything you get.

The fact that Trump was chosen for a president, might be a nice clue that Americans live in a idiocracy now.

I'm not American. I live in Europe.

But I'll give an insight. Socdem party lost support for most people because they systemically failed to address the issues of the working class.

People can have empathy for other people's problems. But when no one cares about your problems a ñnd election after election they ask you to vote them because empathy to others, and never for your own good, because they never do anything for you. And your life keeps getting worse and worse, and still they refuse to address your problems, and keep wanting your vote just for "stopping fascism" or "being solidary"... You can do that for one election, maybe two... But at some point you just phase out, you just cannot care anymore. If they don't do anything for you, and you need something being done, you just don't vote.

And seeing the low democratic turnout in the US, I think it may be the answer. Maybe people that didn't show up yesterday is people that needed their problem solved the last 4 years and they just got ignored by the Democratic party. So they just didn't vote the Democratic party out of spite.

I will actually probably won't vote in my country next election. Fully knowing that the conservative and fascist parties will win and form a coalition government.

But SocDem and Communists have been ruling 8 years and they failed to address my issues. I cannot, in good conscience, keep giving them my vote knowing what they are doing with it. I just have my dignity. I will stand against the altRight on my own terms when they'll raise to power if necessary, but I'll refuse to give my vote to anyone who didn't deserve it.

Is it ok to criticise the Dems again?

Fuck America, I'm done. We're getting what we want. Democracy, liberty, and personal freedom; no thanks

Trump is a talented, comforting story teller to the dull cow-eyed masses. Harris, not understanding human nature, thought that fighting fantasy, comfort, and escapism with facts and warnings was a winning strategy.

I saw the writing on the wall when comparing Trump's actual speech performance at his rallies against his critics' delusions of dementia and mental unfitness.

Muscle memory in action.

Its dead because people voted for this guy and his anti democratic policies.

The illusion of freedom of choice is a powerful tool.

We've been on the idiocracy set for decades