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Originally Posted by grando1.0
Not really. The US has barely changed in the last 30 years, and the change hasn't occurred because of the general election.
It's just funny to outsiders because your elections are essentially a reality show where the same people (middle to lower class Americans) lose because reasons.
How many campaign promises has any president ever kept? Remember when Obama closed Gitmo? Yeah me neither.
Yeah, presidential elections don't matter to the 4500 soldiers who died needlessly in a war based on lies or to their friends and families.
They don't matter to the roughly 170000 same-sex people that now have the legal protections of marriage for their relationships.
They don't matter to the 20 million Americans who have health insurance now through an exchange or the Medicaid expansion.