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by jakelazaroff 1836 days ago
There are a lot of reasons that elected politicians don’t support the positions of most voters, one being that turnout of the voting-age population in the US tends to be just over 50% (with 2020 being an outlier). But I think we’re getting too deep into the analogy here. The point is that a democratically elected government is absolutely capable of making decisions opposed by a majority of its citizens.