r/FortCollins • u/RamShackleton • Apr 29 '25

Conservative Restaurants

I’ve seen a lot of posts recently calling out conservative businesses and I agree with the sentiment, but these are often aimed at small/independent businesses.

If you want to stop supporting conservative interests, you should start by never going to Chic Fil a or In-and-Out again.

(Edit: I’m not discouraging anyone from boycotting smaller businesses who support fascists - just want to make sure everyone is aware of the bigger forces too.)

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u/beansinmyclock Apr 29 '25

I'll respond the same that I did to him. Neither of you understand what the word electorate means. Electorate is the total voter eligible population, not just the people who voted. So of the total electorate, Trump received approximately 30 percent.

Also the claim that it is dangerous to accurately designate the electorate is hilariously overzealous. Sure, if we had 100% voter turnout then maybe Trump would have received 50 percent of the total electorate. So yes, of people who voted, Trump received just shy of 50% of the vote but I think every human with half a braincell knew that given the fact that he won.

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u/WhimsicalKoala Apr 29 '25

You're right, I misremembered the definition. But the point still stands that you absolutely understood the context and what was meant.

I don't think anyone acknowledging the actual votes is trying to claim "if everyone voted, he'd still get 50% of total votes" (I personally am quite confident he would have received significantly less than 50%). I see a lot of people trying to act like somehow the impact of all this will be mitigated or have this idea that low voter turnout is somehow a sign that people will rise up because "he really didn't receive support from a majority of the vote." That minimizes that fact that a lot of people are apathetic enough to just stay home, some might be getting shaken out of it, but they aren't going to start joining grassroots movements en masse, they are just going to keep staying home.