Generally speaking, one of the best explanations of the US political system.

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      Look, a video that doesn’t even mention local elections and pretends that voter turnout is 100% in the first minute, just screams russian psyop

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        Huh. I watched the video, and it didn’t claim anything like 100% turnout in the first minute.

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          Yes, it did and I quote: “Sure, everyone casts their ballots every 2 years” at 0:35. This has never happened in an election in the USA, the highest voter turnout was 81.8% in 1876. The last time voter turnout was higher than 70% was in 1900. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_turnout_in_presidential_elections,_1840-2024 The voter turnout numbers are much lower for midterms and other elections, so the choice of words is dangerously misleading

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            You’re being deliberately obtuse on this. “Everyone goes grocery shopping on weekends” is the same sort of construction, yet it doesn’t actually mean “everyone.” It’s referring to “everyone who votes.”