It is Pellucidly Clear that I too am delusional about

[malthaussen]

61. The opposite of love is indifference.

My take on the election may differ from that of many. Hard as it is to believe, DJT actually lost at least 3 million votes, compared to 2020. How many he might have lost that were offset by new gains is tougher to compute, but I don't think it was many. So there you have it, 70 million American voters (give or take a mil) either love the GOP and DJT outright, or voted that way either to punish the Dems, or because they have no confidence in them.

On the other side of the medal... well, the Democrats dropped 14 million votes compared to 2020. That suggests that just a whole lot of people have grievances with the Party that caused them to stay away in protest. I can speculate as to those reasons, but that's all it would be, speculation. I have nothing approximating data on the subject, but the numbers speak for themselves.

And it suggests that at least 14 million people don't very much care about the government or society of the US -- hence the title of this post. Setting aside the (unknown) percentage of that 14 mil who "didn't know" how bad the GOP candidate and program are, there remains a pretty large amount of people who just don't care. Or who anyway think that it was more important to send a message by silence than it was to show up to fight Chaos. (I wonder, incidentally, how many of DJT's 70+ mil were old guard, and how many were people who decided to vote *against* the Dems, rather than *for* the GOP).

It's kind of funny, in a way. The GOP didn't have to cheat at all. No fake electors, no schemes to refuse to certify the vote, no six million lawsuits to delay and obfuscate -- they flat-out won, bigly, which no matter how you want to spin it is a great, big vote of "No Confidence" in the Democrats. Which is pretty ironic, considering that the Biden administration did a lot of things rather well. But here everyone was ready for a huge dogfight in the aftermath, with lawyers primed and ready in 50 states to enter the fray... and they're all dressed up with nowhere to go. Well, unless the Dems try to claim the election was "stolen." Which would be a neat trick, considering how badly they were spanked.

-- Mal