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USA: GOP and the electoral process

Something like 95% of all GOP running in the midterm are saying that the 2020 elections were stolen, in addition, they are already claiming that the 2022 midterm will be tainted and that there will be fraud on the part of the Democrats.

On the Sunday show, a well-known pollster indicated that he thinks that the 2022 midterm will take months to resolve who has won.  The reason is that in many cases the results will be close, and it has become the go-to solution for both parties (yes, the Democrats too) to say that the election process was tainted by voter fraud.

Even today most of those running for the GOP are saying that if they don't win the election has been stolen, and America, it seems is buying it.

However, this is only mildly interesting when you consider that in the midterm only about 40% of eligible voters bother to vote.  Nearly 60% of eligible voters cannot even be bothered to vote.  They simply don't care.  they pay lip service and say things about their country that they don't actually care about; they care about gun violence, but not enough to do something about it, they care about abortion rights, but again not enough to do something about it, they care about nothing except their latest Soap and Sports.  The rest of the world has this vision of America, that is sold on TV and in the movie that exists nowhere!

That's the real tragedy, Americans don't care about democracy at all!  




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