• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    There has not been an US presidential election where the president got more votes than the number of non-voters. If apathy won then it had won every single time.

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        1 hour ago

        That’s hardly the reason. If you had a multi-party system the voted would be even more spread out between the candidates which makes it even less likely for a candidate to get more votes than the non-voting population. However a multi-party system would significantly lessen the possibility of getting oligarchic control because you wouldn’t have to choose between 2 shitty options, you’d have to have multiple shitty choices for the shittiest one to win.