@dankmaximus Have you even checked the elections? A few million more people want Biden over Trump.
So you're basically saying that because a boistorous minority (because that's what they are at this point) want Trump, the winners should just give it all up and give the Trump-supporters what they want? Why the fuck did they even have elections to begin with?
Also, what dictatorship? 😜
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I agree with you here, the american people are mostly divided between who they want.
The problem each side thinks they are the majority, and no one has bothered to do a proper investigation to settle it. Plus we were already at eachothers throats before hand.
@Hyolobrika I've told my friends regularly that USA is gotten too big for its own good in these modern times. You can see clearly where the polarization lies at:
The crowded East and West coasts tend to be Democratically-inclined. The quieter rural center is mostly Republican. And with the current polarization going on, it sounds more and more like they want to become their own nations instead.
There also had been talks (mostly idle threats so far) of a few large states wanting to secede in the last decade. Who knows, maybe it'll become reality. I wouldn't be too surprised at least if that were the case.
> Democratically-inclined
Thats the wrong word by the way and has a different meaning than you intended. You meant Democrat-inclined.
California actually had succession on their ballot recently. It is an idle threat as the constitution does not give states the right to succeed, so they do not have the power to decide that, the federal government would have to grant it, legally.
@freemo What if half California decided to demonstrate in front of the Capitol instead? Maybe even go inside for a few selfies? 😋
(thanks for the correction)
@Hyolobrika @dankmaximus @mur2501
They are all too damned stoned to go anywhere past their front doorstep :)
This is Mur 
@freemo @trinsec
It's interesting that the right there is prominent in the lesser urban regions while here it's the opposite
@dankmaximus
@mur2501 Mmm, I would say we have the same trend as USA. The large cities are usually more left-inclined. The rural areas are more right. My city is definitely left. I'm sure the Americans would call us communists. 😋
Personally I'm more center-left.
Do keep in mind that American left and right aren't quite comparable to ours. What for us is left and right, is for them left and left.
@trinsec @freemo
Yeah the American political scene is only seen in USA 
Anyway here political parties exists at various levels, some nationwide, some state-wide, some regional.
My state is currently rule by a coalition of the left parties and the regional far right party while the nationwide right wing remains in the opposition.
@dankmaximus
Coalition politics strikes me as better than winner-take-all systems for the most part.
@freemo For sure. Like I've mentioned to someone else before, we are doing coalition politics (poldermodel) so well that we can't make decisions at all, so we can't make terrible decisions either! 😋
Hahahah, well, to be fair, I can say the same about US politics. We have become so polarized we cant pass most laws and even have government shutdowns fairly regularly now.
Neither system is perfect and honestly a government is only as good as its people. If its people cant find a middle ground with which to agree on, even if it is not the ideal of any one side's view, then we shouldn't expect the government to be able to.
Sadly no one ever wants to own the problem as a problem caused by the people. Everyone wants to blame the government as if the government is some overlord separate from the people. The government is literally the manifestation of the people, and if you dont like what you see when you look at the government its best you realize that you (the population as a whole) are looking into a mirror.
@freemo @trinsec @mur2501 @dankmaximus it's true!!