(November 17, 2016 at 5:21 pm)Opoponax Wrote:(November 17, 2016 at 2:44 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Oh, yeah, it's totally the fault of the people that didn't like either candidate. These people and their thinking that they shouldn't be forced election after election to choose between a douche and a turd sandwich. They should just shut up and pick an asshole. It's the American way, after all.
It had nothing to do with Hillary being a lying corporate shill. It had nothing to do with her being an establishment politician in the pocket of Wall St. It had nothing to do with her inability to connect to rural voters. It had nothing to do with Hillary giving Wasserman-Schulz a job after she got caught trying to rig the primary. It had nothing to do with her poor handling of classified information.
You can go ahead and keep blaming third party voters. But you may as well just extend Trump's lease on the White House for four more years.
I don't blame you completely, just in part. And you can deny it all you want, just like Nader supporters still live in denial over aiding George W. Bush in getting elected in 2000. But it's okay, there are hundreds of thousands of dead people to remind them.
There was an obvious choice to be made here and you helped Trump get elected. Suck it up and accept that you threw your vote away on someone who had absolutely zero chance to win jackshit. Hell, jackshit is infinitely more than any Johnson or Stein won, or had a chance to win.
Most people don't always like either candidate, but they understand that often there is a lesser of two evils, and so they vote for the lesser and hope for the best. Neither Stein, nor Johnson ever stood a chance of appointing a SCOTUS justice, but Hillary did. Talk all your "corporate shill" bullshit until the cows come home, but now Trump is putting at least one, probably two, maybe even three justices on the Supreme Court.
But hey, at least you voted your conscience.
But you're assuming that people who voted 3rd party would otherwise have voted for Hillary. There are many Republicans who voted 3rd party this time around as well.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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