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VACCINATION), and menacingly taunt Green Partiers with the insipid line, "A vote for
Jill Stein is a vote for Trump."
Um, no, it's not. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for...drumroll...JILL STEIN. It's not our
fault the stupid idiotic electoral college gets in the way of a true democratic election
process. If Dem supporters want someone to scapegoat, blame the Democrats and
Republicans for maintaining the electoral college system, which schemes to suppress
third party candidates. No other western power is this ridiculously regressive when it
comes to elections. So stop, I say to Hillary-Dems, STOP, scapegoating someone like Jill
Stein, whom you'd otherwise support if it weren't for the anachronistic electoral college
that BOTH parties strategize to maintain.
Hillary must, after all, earn votes; she is not entitled to them. There is no guarantee that
Jill Stein supporters would vote for Hillary in the event of a Green Party vacuum. It's up
to the Democrats to run candidates that people trust, so as to gain favor with the
electorate. As it is, people are defecting left and right from the Democratic Party, and
with solid reason. The latest fiasco of blatantly shoving that great galvanizer, Bernie
Sanders, under the campaign bus, has pried open many a blind eye to what exactly is
going on within their once-cherished party.
“We live in a fabled world
We live in a fabled world,
These times can break you,
these times can leave you,
torn apart.”
Will I vote for Hillary if it looks like Georgia, traditionally a red state, will become a
swing state? Who knows? But, I repeat, I will not be BULLIED and SHAMED into
voting for her. Such tactics on the part of Democratic supporters are pathetic.
Besides, ultimately the vitriol toward Jill Stein supporters is massively misplaced. The
hostility should be directed toward the Democrats for running an absolute sham of a
campaign, for corporatizing the hell out of their party, and running the worst possible
candidate against Trump. The pugnacious attitudes should be funneled toward the
stubborn and rigid electoral college, whose existence is enthusiastically nurtured by both
Democrats and Republicans. The righteous indignation should be flung toward everyone
in politics EXCEPT the Green Party, who has a right to exist, a right to challenge the
dastardly duopoly, and who has the purest progressive platform this side of UtopiaLand.
Suck on that, suckaz.