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Originally Posted by BrickaBracka
The internet and social media make it immediately apparent what's going on behind the curtains nowadays and this is something which in the past wasn't available. We all just assumed that when our candidate didn't win, it was due STRICTLY to a lack of votes. Not a combination of a lack of votes, a corrupt system changing rules in their favor, and a seeming inability of the legal system to enforce the rules which are currently on the books.
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In my experience the Internet is more like an echo chamber than anything else, and is better at creating fanatics than it is at bringing people together. Bernie lost from a lack of votes and support for his campaign. Sanders people only talking about with sanders people doesn't change that. It just means they were all in an echo chamber.
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Originally Posted by BrickaBracka
So disappointed expectations abound. And every generation is smarter than the one before it - this is the way society has always been. So the decline in political participation is due in large part to people becoming aware, rightly so, that their involvement in the political process isn't going to achieve their goals.
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Humans are the same as they've been for many untold thousands of years, they are as smart as they've ever been. I don't have any idea about the decline of political participation but I'm positive it didn't start with Sanders not getting enough votes.