Honestly, I see the argument from both sides.
On the one hand, the system is rigged against 3rd parties in our country. In fact, rigged so badly that traditionally voting 3rd party is a boon to the GOP. Examples in history include most notably Ronald Reagan, who benefited from the Anderson split and W Bush, who only got into office because of overreach by the Supreme Court and Nadar splitting the vote.
As an aside, I wasn't aware that the Supreme Court could intervene in a close presidential election, stop the process and appoint a president. I must have missed that part of our Constitution.
So yeah, I'm holding my nose and voting Democrat, just like I did in 2012 and 2010 and I encourage all progressives to do the same.
At the same time, nothing pisses me off more than some self-righteous Obama-bot who makes the rounds on liberal blogs to wag their fingers at us as a group, talk down to us like we're children and say "I hope you learned your lesson from 2010". Of uses that tiresome straw man argument that "you were just mad because you didn't get the pet unicorn he never promised you." Or who screams at me that I'm a "traitor" because I dared to say anything critical about Obama or the Wimpocrats. Uh uh. When you lose a battle, you blame the generals, not the troops.
It's a rock and a hard place for progressives and voting "lesser evil" is getting old. Worse still, the Democrats continue to move to the right chasing after that elusive "center", so much that we now get to chose between "wimpy-center-right" and "bat-shit-crazy-right".
I'm open to suggestions but the best I can think of is fighting this battle during the primaries.
On the one hand, the system is rigged against 3rd parties in our country. In fact, rigged so badly that traditionally voting 3rd party is a boon to the GOP. Examples in history include most notably Ronald Reagan, who benefited from the Anderson split and W Bush, who only got into office because of overreach by the Supreme Court and Nadar splitting the vote.
As an aside, I wasn't aware that the Supreme Court could intervene in a close presidential election, stop the process and appoint a president. I must have missed that part of our Constitution.
So yeah, I'm holding my nose and voting Democrat, just like I did in 2012 and 2010 and I encourage all progressives to do the same.
At the same time, nothing pisses me off more than some self-righteous Obama-bot who makes the rounds on liberal blogs to wag their fingers at us as a group, talk down to us like we're children and say "I hope you learned your lesson from 2010". Of uses that tiresome straw man argument that "you were just mad because you didn't get the pet unicorn he never promised you." Or who screams at me that I'm a "traitor" because I dared to say anything critical about Obama or the Wimpocrats. Uh uh. When you lose a battle, you blame the generals, not the troops.
It's a rock and a hard place for progressives and voting "lesser evil" is getting old. Worse still, the Democrats continue to move to the right chasing after that elusive "center", so much that we now get to chose between "wimpy-center-right" and "bat-shit-crazy-right".
I'm open to suggestions but the best I can think of is fighting this battle during the primaries.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
