• SabMayaHai@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    Other than just trying to get everything to fit, is there a reason why the x-axis labels are split between top and bottom?

      • negativeyoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        5 months ago

        … and Gore in 2000.

        In the incredibly unlikely event that a GOP nominee won the popular but lost the electoral college, Republicans would HOWL

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      People are upset because you are or are coming across as a Trump supporter but what you’re saying is exactly right and is one of the problems with democracy.

      Democracy sucks when it’s the dictatorship of the majority and it’s even worse when it’s the dictatorship of the minority (i.e. due to non-voters) and that’s what democracy has become.

      It’d be grand if elected officials were representative of everyone, not just their voters (really: their funders), or if we didn’t need elected representatives at all.

      American democracy is a few steps removed from the ideal democracy and that itself is removed from ideal governance. To get ahead of questions: yes I’m advocating for self governance, consensus building, free association, and other aspects of left-anarchism

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      12·
      5 months ago

      eyup. would have been a heck of a lot better if folks took this more seriously when deciding to vote and for who. Still. Rank choice voting would have fixed this pretty good.

    • meeeeetch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      That’s the margin the Dems have in big cities. But unlike all the states where you have cities, their suburbs, and the rural space between, DC is nothing but urban center.

    • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      1. DC is small. Not quite Vatican small, but DC is essentially entirely urban. Urban areas are democratic.

      2. DC is not a state. They don’t get any representation in Congress because of this. Democrats are the politicians promising to try and get DC a seat in Congress so that they may be represented. They passed a strange bill that allowed DC to have Shadow Congresspeople who vote in Congress, but their votes don’t get counted for anything. Republicans do not want DC to have any representation.

      3. This may be anecdotal from being a local and speaking with people from DC, but there’s a general idea that DC and the surrounding NoVa and MD areas are taken care of very well by the federal government. No president or congressman wants to work and live in an area surrounded by crime, homelessness, and crumbling infrastructure, or else they might feel bad. Democratic leaders tend to push for legislature and infrastructure that supports the local community, while Republican leaders have historically shown a mindset of “Fuck everybody else here” and not supported the local community. Reagan flooded DC streets with Contra crack to get rid of “degenerate blacks” in the community. On the flip side, Clinton and Obama fought for DC to get state rights to be represented in the government.