European NATO leaders have issued a joint statement that “Greenland belongs to its people” and it is for the Arctic island and Denmark only to decide on its future, after President Donald Trump’s administration reiterated its wish to take control of it.
The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.
This will always lie at the feet of American voters. For failing at more than just this election.
C’mon, bring on the downvoters, pissers and moaners, excuse makers.
I’m not downvoting. You aren’t wrong.
The US election system has been fucked a long time. That’s also true. It disproportionately supports conservatives.
That said, he really did get something like 75 million votes. 75 million trashy people living in the US who are still out there looking at this bullshit and saying “I voted for this.” There is no excuse for that.
The system isn’t great but there is still a way to get the people they need in. The Republicans prove this pretty much every election.
It disproportionally serves conservatives because others didn’t and don’t vote.
It’s been on the voter for a long time. Excuses too; in 2016 and earlier it was ‘our right not to’ now it’s ’we can’t because jobs/timing/whatever’.
That is an oversimplification. The disproportion is literally that: the Electoral College means people in states which have higher populations get lower representation. And higher populations tends to mean bigger cities, which (worldwide) tends to mean more left than right.
The Republicans get the people they need in exactly because of this disproportionality.
Also true that relatively few USians vote – and that’s at least partially related to having no national voting holiday, plus elections on Tuesdays instead of weekends. It is literally in the Republican platform to have fewer people vote. They’ve just been successful at it for a long time.
RE 2016 and earlier, I have not seen that pattern.