Popular vote, US House elections, November 2022:
- GOP: 54.5 million
- Democrats: 51.4 million
- non-voting adult US citizens: 137.8 million
USA population ≈336 million.
78% age 18 & up = 262.08 million.
93% citizens = 243.7 million.
243.7 — 54.5 — 51.4 = 137.8.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Actually, I believe the immigrant population skews a bit younger than the citizen population. So the actual number of non voting US citizens is a bit less than 137.8 million. But not a lot less.
In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep on keeping on, in a sort of twilight sleep in which they are conscious of nothing except the daily round of work, family life, darts at the pub, exercising the dog, mowing the lawn, bringing home the beer, etc.
George Orwell