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In what way is this year the biggest election year on record? It’s literally the exact same candidates as it was 4 years ago.
There are other countries in the world that have elections apart from the US. More of them than ever before in one year are having them in 2024.
I know I’m feeding a troll, but US democracy is on the ballot this year. Previous years have been big years, but this could be the last election in the US. Trump getting to the White House will allow him to save himself, and he will be bringing Fascism to a whole new level in the US with Project 2025 and all the truly evil folks in his cult leadership circle.
They say this every 4 years and nothing really changes.
I mean one of the candidates is a convicted felon that worships dictators and has said he will go after political rivals and that he’d be a dictator for a day.
He said he’d build a wall and Mexico would pay for it and that never happened either. Trump says a lot of stupid shit. It’s weird that he’s taken so seriously.
He’s shown you who he is, I think we need to start believing him. He has also surrounded himself with even more unhinged and dangerous people this time around. They have a plan this time to keep power and end elections. Putting your head in the sand doesn’t make him and his cult any less of a threat, and plays right into their playbook. They want you to become disengaged, to burn out, to think he is “just joking”, or just “telling it how he sees it”, or worst of all “the new normal”. These all leave his cult emboldened and with less resistance to grabbing power.
It’s not like if Trump loses his supporters suddenly go away. These people will be right back here in 2028 trying the same shit. Hyping up every election like we’re on knife’s edge is so disingenuous. Especially when the opposing candidates are completely out of touch ghouls like Clinton and Biden. Personally I’m content to sit back and watch it all burn. We’re headed down a shit trajectory no matter who’s in office. There’s no hope for a good future unless we burn it all down anyway.
It’s not just America having an election this year. India just had theirs and it’s the biggest election on Earth.
The US population increased by 0.5% in 2023, adding more than 1.6 million people to reach a total of 334,914,895.
They say that every election year.