https://twitter.com/DanielPipes/status/1472712182106402819

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    45% of Chileans

    In other words, a minority. Remember, kids, when the majority wins an election, that's an authoritarianism. And the more popular they are, the more anti-democratic it is.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      In other words, a minority.

      Christ, remember when Bush won a contested election by way of 450 Floridians and a single SCOTUS judge? And anyone who objected was a Sore Loserman?

      Even Obama and Reagan didn't clean up 55-45, and their wins were considered landslides. A ten-point deficit in the states would result in so much open jeering of the opposition. But in Chile, they're supposed to be a serious opposition? Lolz.

      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/20/gabriel-boric-wins-chiles-presidential-election

      An additional 1.2 million Chileans cast ballots Sunday compared with the first round, raising turnout to nearly 56 percent, the highest since voting stopped being mandatory in 2012.

      “It’s impossible not to be impressed by the historic turnout, the willingness of Kast to concede and congratulate his opponent even before final results were in, and the generous words of President Pinera,” said Cynthia Arnson, head of the Latin America program at the Wilson Center in Washington. “Chilean democracy won today, for sure.”

      Better turnout than Americans managed between 1972 and 2016.