(November 13, 2016 at 4:01 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 13, 2016 at 3:30 pm)Opoponax Wrote: This was not the time to go purist. No candidate is going to be perfect--it's never happened. No third party hack was going to win this thing--not a hope in hell. You don't go to the track and bet on the three-legged horse in a three horse race because you happen to like the jockey riding it. You know it's a waste of money.
If you don't take and fight for this very opportunity to change the political and electoral system, you probably never will. You always will be stuck with two parties being more or less in the hands of corporations and block out everyone who's still an idealist.
Just saying. It's kinda obvious. If you don't have big money on your side in America, you don't even stand a chance of being elected for dog catcher. And if you have it, you don't give a shit for the people you're supposed to represent but only for your donors. Money for nothing isn't a reality.
What's obvious is that Donald Trump is President of the United States of America, the most powerful nation on earth. Or, as is said in sports here when the game is over:
"Scoreboard motherfucker!"
What that means is that all that matters is who won.
And maybe if these shitbird third parties would bother to build local movements, then they would have a chance. You know who wasn't on my local and state ballot for anything? Third parties. Not for city council, mayor, congress, senator, NOTHING. All Republicans or Democrats; not a single Libertarian, Green, Peace & Freedom: NADA. Yet these assholes show up every four years, run their mealy mouthed bullshit to baffle the unwise and help get men like George W. Bush and Donald Trump elected.
They're worse than worthless.
