I will not vote against Trump, neither will I vote against Hillary.

The only candidate for President on my ballot that I can vote FOR is Jill Stein.

When you vote for Jill Stein, you also vote against bpth Trump and Clinton.

Sounds like a win-win two-fer to me!

The media does not cover people like Jill Stein. And the alternative media infrastructure is at a very low level of organization & resources, and can't get the word out to the people well enough for Stein to compete. And she has no access to the debates. A significant fraction of the population doesn't know who Stein is: ergo, a significant fraction of the population will not vote for Jill Stein.

I remember once, when I was about 11, we were on a road trip to Key West, when the radiator ran out of water. We took orange juice out of the cooler and poured it in and limped the remainder of the way to Key West & a mechanic.

OK, so, Jill Stein's radiator, through no fault of her own, is dry, and she's borrowed some kid's Juicy Juice by the side of the road and poured it in, and her car is moving slowly while Hill and Trump zoom by in their perfectly maintained cars--they have the best pit crews in the world at the ready at many points along the road, and they're kicking ass--or they *would* be, except that Hill keeps taking a pickaxe to her car's dash and has reduced quite a lot of it to bits and pieces, and her poor driver can't seem to get her to stop doing that. A minute ago, she also managed to rip one of the car doors off. She also likes to grab the wheel and drive straight at her own pit crew, laughing maniacally.

Trump's car is OK, and he's not attacking it like a maniac, but he's just not a very good driver, and he doesn't always seem to know which direction to go. You get the feeling he's the kind of guy who might drive The Wrong Way up a highway interchange, and then you get the feeling that maybe he's trying to throw the race, but it's hard to tell because throwing a race to someone attacking her own car with a pickaxe is hard, and requires some very odd and kooky behavior, and it's difficult to tell whether he's trying to throw the race or is just crazy.

Gary Johnson's car works, but it's not the car he says it is: he says it's a real racing car but it's actually just a kit. Hence, the car doesn't really behave as advertised. But it runs pretty well, better than Stein's, and he's not crazy.

My point is the problem isn't in the minds of the voters, or in their characters. Elections are not reflections of our moral or intellectual quality as a people, and they haven't been for some time--with the possible exception of 2008, which was allowed to stand as a genuine election because a Wall St/Deep State candidate was a good enough politician to trick the population into actually supporting him. That was a weird exception because being a Wall St candidate got Obama access to all the political machinery he could ever need--yet at the same time, he got scores of millions to genuinely believe in him. It was like an homage to actual elections.

The problem here is in infrastructure: cultural, political, economic. We don't have the resources we need. We don't do a lot to seek out alternatives, or invent them.

Bernie now campaigning for the Corporatocracy .