General Discussion

to make sure this bullshit keeps going.

Turnout, in other words. The population is pretty evenly split between 'cooperators' (us) and 'competitors' (them), because our evolutionary heritage shaped the population distribution this way. We are meant to be in this conflict, our two groups. Always have been, always will be when a population is looked at in large, mostly randomly assembled groups. And we actually need each other, even if both sides are loath to admit it A big reason the USA has been such a successful country for so many years is that we have BALANCE between our opposing viewpoints. Neither side ever "takes over" here, thanks to the Founders setting up a pretty damn solid system that understood the need to balance these aspects of our nature, even if they supposed they came from some man in the sky instead of what really happened lol.

In a country were voting is completely optional, the 'side of the coin' that wins is dictated by which group can be arsed to actually vote. They COULD have won all of it, its not like they don't have enough people/votes. But we won because more of us cared about who won than did on their side.