Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, both of the Green Party, have this to add to my last diary:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/donald_trump_frees_us_to_vote_as_we_...

The Flowers/ Zeese argument is more or less the one made by myself and a number of other people, except that Flowers/ Zeese dig up some more interesting stuff. Politico now claims (through Shane Goldmacher and Annie Karni) that "If the blue wall holds, (Clinton) needs only one swing state to win the White House." And the likely outcome of the forthcoming Clinton Presidency appears to be what Flowers and Zeese says it's going to be:

Clinton, on the other hand, will be a strong president, with a supportive Congress. She will be able to push her agenda, as Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein calls it, of “war, Wall Street and Wal-Mart.” She really is the greater danger, because she will be the more effective evil, while Trump will be all rhetoric. Not only does a Clinton win mean a risk of more power for Wall Street through corporate trade agreements, it also poses a risk of more war, due to her belligerence toward Russia, China and multiple countries in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

Meanwhile according to Flowers/ Zeese there's a campaign, promising:

ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2ND WE ALL RESIGN FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Let's make it a SUPER TUESDAY to announce our INDEPENDENCE FROM THE OLIGARCHS!!!!!

And there's a pledge:

I pledge that if at any moment Bernie is no longer a candidate in the Democratic party, either because he concedes, or has been denied the nomination at the convention, I will immediately change my registration to the Green Party.

"Lesser of two evils" voting has greatly damaged America and the world. It gave us Bill Clinton, who gave us the Welfare Bill to impoverish the poorest of Americans, the Crime Bill to fill the (privatized) prisons, and the end of Glass-Steagall, which was a contributing cause of the collapse of 2008-2009. It gave us Barack Obama, who gave us mandatory insurance payments for insurance with high premiums, deductibles, and copays, impunity for illegal bank foreclosures, an expansion of Dick Cheney's war on the world, charter schools to smash the teacher's unions while failing to educate children, and so on. It's silenced the Left in America and killed off the antiwar movement while making a buffoon like Donald Trump look legitimate. It's going to give us Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Lesser of two evils voting routinely fails to incite enthusiasm for opponents to the worst the Republicans have to offer, and thus it offers us nothing close to an assurance that the "greater of two evils" will not prevail. That's going to happen this year, with record-low election turnout. But don't worry -- Clinton will still prevail, unless Sanders beats her to it.

Meanwhile the Clinton campaign continues to generate rubes.

Awhile ago, Jane Hamsher (who ran the now-defunct Firedoglake) ran some editorials on a topic she called the "Veal Pen." What is the "Veal Pen"? The "Veal Pen" is the social network that has all the nice liberal organizations working for conservative Democrats for right-wing ends. The "Veal Pen" has corrupted practically every non-governmental organization you can think of outside of the ACLU. So for instance:

Van Jones: A Moment of Truth for Liberal Institutions in the Veal Pen

Someone's Got To Liberate The Veal Pen

Enviros Go Veal Pen 2.0 with BP's Money

and so on. Y'all have search engines -- go find more.

At any rate, it's easy to see where all this "Veal Pen" stuff will lead. Next term, when heat waves are roasting Arizona and Texas to a crisp while forcing Florida underwater and prominent celebrities are telling the world "omigod we gotta do something about global warming," all of the nice liberal "Veal Pen" organizations will be lining up behind the politician who accepts 20% of her campaign warchest from Saudi Arabia to create some sort of toothless legislation that will leave the fossil fuel companies blameless as they continue to peddle their deadly product.

The "lesser of two evils" people will tell you: omigod we gotta stop Hitler from getting into power! But what actually happened to put Hitler into power? From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg

Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life in 1925 to be elected the second President of Germany. In 1932, although 84 years old and in poor health, Hindenburg was persuaded to run for re-election as German President, as he was considered the only candidate who could defeat Adolf Hitler. Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff. He was opposed to Hitler and was a major player in the increasing political instability in the Weimar Republic that ended with Hitler's rise to power. He dissolved the Reichstag (parliament) twice in 1932 and finally, under pressure, agreed to appoint Hitler Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. In February, he signed off on the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended various civil liberties, and in March he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Hitler's regime arbitrary powers.

That's right, everyone. "Lesser of two evils" voting gave us Hitler.

Let's sum it up. If you want to be able to have some form of effective dissent about anything at all in America today, after 30 years of coerced voting for Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and Obama, voting for the "lesser of two evils" is about the least effective way of getting what you want. You're actually going to have to form your own political organizations, working for your own political interests, because the ones you've been supporting for the past decades have in all likelihood sold you out. You're going to have to make up for a lot of bad history. Will you have another chance like the one you're getting this year? No.