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That too is scary. The guy didn't win and still ran the country. WTF
The American political system is literally incomprehensible.
Everyone votes and then you find out who the winner is. And then, at some later point you find out who the president will be, and it's not necessarily the same person for some reason.
And yet apparently democracy has happened so that's all.
the american federal government is easy to understand: everything is weighed in favor of rural conservative racists because when we were first designing the thing they realized that they were in the minority but that we'd lose the revolution without them. President? Racists get more of a say due to the electoral college. Senate? Half a million conservatives in Wyoming get just as many votes as 40 million liberals in California. House? House reps are capped at 435 permanently so as areas become more populous they end up with less representation per person. SCotUS? Even when it's running normally it's biased because the biased president and biased Senate pick them, but since Obama now Democrats need the presidency and a majority coalition in the Senate in order to pick justices. That's every branch of federal government, and recently they tried to make it even worse by making state legislatures (which always lean conservative because they gerrymander to hell and back) the sole authority on what constitutes a "fair" election. Given all the out and out treason that came from state legislatures after Trump got wrecked by Biden, I think we know what conservative state legislatures will do if they get to decide what constitutes "fair".
Throw in a dash of first past the post, a pinch of gerrymandering, and baby we've got a minority government.
I mean... It's not like I'm American or vote in America or live in America so I guess it's not a priority to me to evaluate how these factor in my life.
I guess it's America's job to do it.
They did in 2004.
That's once since 1992, but in that time there have been 4 republican presidential wins. it's definitely rigged.