Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@SpaceLifeForm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SpaceLifeForm</span></a></span> : US elections are not about voting.</p><p>They're about who gets the most sponsoring (some, including me, call this corruption) and how "good" manipulative "social" media and lying journalists manage to influence those who *do* vote.</p><p>Edited to add w.r.t. "if just 10 percent of the lazy voted, then we could not be in this mess today": the choice was between AIPAC sponsored and AIPAC sponsored.</p><p>It was, depending on ones PoV, between bad and worse. US citizens who did not vote were not lazy. They knew that none of the candidates would do anything in their interest. Your elections were a battle between the wealthy and the extremely rich. It's all about money and greed.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@somcak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>somcak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UnDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a></p>