I know this is really just preaching to the choir but I just need to share this because I can say here what I cannot say at GOS or FB.
I will never vote for Hillary. No one could pay me enough to do it. There is no carrot that she and her crew could possibly hold out that would get me to follow and no stick painful enough to goad me into it.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/18/no-illusions-says-climate-le...
Published on
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
by
Common Dreams
With No Illusions, Says Climate Leader, Clinton Must Be Elected—Then Fiercely Confronted
An essay was published here a few days ago titled "Why I am Voting For Hillary." While I respect the author for posting it here--"behind enemy lines," so to speak--I still felt that his reasoning was just the latest update of the same reasoning we hear every four years, which goes: You have to vote for the Democratic nominee because the Republicans are awful.
I concur: they are awful. And they'll likely always be awful. Yet some people are always trying to use this inescapable part of American political reality to justify all manner of backsliding by the other political party--you know, the one that claims to represent "the people."
So I would like to write a rebuttal here. Not of that article, but of that entire manner of thinking.
I'm curious how much support our current 3rd party candidates actually have. The main polling organizations can't be trusted, as they've shown an obvious bias, doing things like under representing independent voters, or completely excluding millennial voters.
Generally, it's good to do strategic thinking in politics. If you have a political goal, you need a means of achieving it, and not just an idea. Of course, recognizing the need for strategic thinking does not mean that ideas are of no importance -- both good ideas and strategic thinking are necessary.
This is a continuing sad tale.
The great Progressive hero Bernie Sanders, who likely and rightfully won the Democratic Nomination -- if all the Election suppression, coin-flips, poll closings, E-Vote cheating, and other visible gimmicks had been properly prevented (as they should've been), now has backed his truck up again, and turned his tail on Progressives yet one more time.
... and it keeps getting Wronger, Worser, less responsive to We the People.
And that Standard is ...
I feel like I am in a waking nightmare, with so much happening that seems to be rolling us back to the bad old days.
Back in the 80's we once heard Aussie Dr. Helen Caldicott speak in Austin while she was on a tour promoting doing away with nuclear weapons. She said Americans were suffering from 'psychic numbing' with all the fail and catastrophes that were surrounding each day, and thus were not taking the necessary action destroy nuclear weapons.
Yeah its the Free Beacon but has also been picked up by Drudge et al.
Stein: ISIS Isn’t Going to Attack US
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/jill-stein-isis-isnt-going-attac...
So I'm listening to Thom Hartmann yesterday, as I always try to do, and this woman who is a Bernie supporter calls in to talk about supporting Jill Stein going forward. Thom goes off on her about how Jill Stein is a 'professional' and 'vanity' candidate. He then says Stein won't release her tax returns giving the impression that she is just in it for the money.
