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I'm not even talking about "protest voters" specifically, i'm talking about the ~90 million who just didn't vote for whatever reasons. Because they were "busy" because they were confused about the issues. Because they didn't have time, because they didn't care, because they didn't like either candidate, because they liked a candidate but were afraid of popular opinion, because they were "tired of politics" and so on.
And this isn't touching on the number of people who voted Trump just for "fun" because they thought we "need the shakeup."
But all that said, if you "protest" by not voting you're dumber than rocks. Dumb rocks.
Those people will not participate unless it's required by law.
Expect at least 1 thrid of the population to never vote otherwise.
Vibes feel like a third, data shows it's closer to half of eligible voters not participating in most recent elections.
Rates have varied wildly in the US, but the last several decades (except for Biden's last run) have been low, and this is by design. Advent of media has allowed political factions to disrupt each other on a much larger scale, and the general population is too vulnerable to these attacks and appeals, and instead of making people want to get involved, the chaos makes people not want to learn the truth, so we have had elections with barely more than half of eligible voters participating.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections
Cool they will never participate so focus on the ones who will
I think you need to take a break from the internet and walk around in the company of live humans.