Because U.S. law has typically treated people differently based on skin color from the very beginning. When the Constitution was drafted, racial differences were actually baked into the main body of the Constitution. Black Americans were not citizens and did not have the right to vote until the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were passed after the Civil War. Blacks were counted as three-fifths of a person because the South wanted to use enslaved people to pad out their representation in the House of Representatives, and therefore the Electoral College, despite the fact that they were not legally citizens and had no voting rights. The North did not want the South to be able to count them at all because they were not legally citizens. The South was not as invested in becoming independent from Britain as the North was. Southern plantation society was their version of British peerage and aristocracy. The South simply refused to join the revolution unless concessions were made. The concessions ended up being the Three-Fifths Compromise.

After the Civil War, blacks continued to not be treated as equals. The South openly passed Jim Crow laws which disenfranchised black voters and spent the next 100 years fighting to maintain them, despite the fact that the Constitution supposedly guaranteed equal rights for blacks. The same laws also denied educational opportunities for blacks for the purposes of forcing them into being cheap labor. That said, the North was marginally better, at best, in that regard. It took the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to end Jim Crow, using the Interstate Commerce Clause to enforce it. Even then, it continued in subtle ways like redlining real estate to keep minorities out.

Native Americans had their lands seized and were sent to reservations, and forced into tribal schools to Christianize and Americanize them. There is one of those tribal schools in my home city of Phoenix, which is now a museum, that has a major east-west road named after it. Tribal lands are sovereign and are subject only to their own jurisdiction and that of the federal government; they are outside the control of the states. That is an issue in Oklahoma, where the Oklahoma state government is frustrated that they can't exert control over tribal members in the eastern part of the state as per McGirt v. Oklahoma. Native Americans didn't receive U.S. Citizenship until 1924. Even the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause excluded Native Americans ("Indians not taxed") from citizenship.

Well, I had a feeling Trump would win, but I didn't think it would be a landslide. Let alone the popular vote. Congrats to him. Just like the last time, I wish him the best of luck.

Looking at your sig. You're a very lucky man. Is there a PC in the family and all?

Oh well. Good luck man, have some good down time away from it and getting away from the politics will definitely improve your mental health. Best decision I ever made was to let be what may be and realise you can't effect anything on the Internet. Best o' luck 👊 

All votes haven't been counted yet, but as of right now, this graph checks out for being a few hours old.

2020
81m (D) +74m (R) = 155m votes in total

2024
66m (D) + 72m (R) = 138m votes in total

If the 15m missing Democratic voters went over to vote for Trump, I can at least understand their reasoning.
But as of now around 15 million of the Democratic voters essentially just decided not to vote.
Best to do this comparison after all votes have been counted though. It might allign a bit closer in the end, but man...

Bro one of my friends says Trump has the Diddy party support and I sent him tiktoks of Trump himself saying hes friends with Diddy, and theres photos of him at a Diddys parties. It's like we live in two different worlds so much brainwashing.

Thanks. Yes. A large part of this inflation is due to greedy fucking corporations price gouging, do people really expect pro-business Trump to do something about that? Lol. These corps saw what they could get away with during COVID and then decided to take it a step further, it has absolutely nothing to do with profit, it's pure greed, they will continue increasing until people speak with their wallets but unfortunately some of this stuff is essential. Now, tariffs, Trump's going to batter Americans with those and that's very much all his fault. Once again he's receiving an economy with positive signs for the future aside from inflation and watch him fuck it up, once again.

I came around to Lina...She had a lot of great pro-consumer ideas, she's definitely being fired, can't be upsetting businesses now can we, same businesses laying off tens of thousands so they can save the equivalent of £50 to the average consumer, Lol. At least there's EC and CMA but EC feels defanged lately.

Basically, yes. It's something that I turned into a running joke because the run-up to the election took forever and it was quite boring to follow for a long time. And because BFR took it seriously the first time I made a connection between NFL teams and swing states; and he still did until this day with his attempt at a gotcha post. I didn't go for the Redskins Rule specifically because for one, it's not about a swing state, and two, it was proven to be wrong before.

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I skipped a few people's post of the past day, but I can definitely say that Chrkeller's assertion that one side in this thread refuses to listen isn't true. Pretty much everyone understands why populism works and why voters glance over fascism; after all, we see the same thing happening in European countries and it's nothing new at all. The core of the problem is that you can't reason people out of a position that they haven't arrived at through logic in the first place.

Biden's economic policies have worked, allowing the USA to recover from the aftermath of COVID better than any other industrialized country, creating millions of jobs in the process. But what do facts mean when people feel that they aren't true. Nobody has come up with a solution for that dilemma yet, hence why the far-right has risen virtually everywhere.