• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    24 hours ago

    What are these percentages?

    The percent of the vote they got into power by?

    Lets re-display that not as a percent of merely the turnout, nor merely the electorate, but as a percentage of the entire populations they purport to represent.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      They are approval ratings, not electoral results. Bourgeois democracy regularly fails to put popular candidates in power.

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        if they are

        approval ratings

        then

        doesn’t hold elections

        is not like the others in more than the immediately obvious way.