Because voting for the green party will accomplish nothing at this point.
Sending a message is not good enough in the face of the possibility of that
lunatic narcissist child being in the White House.
And remember, this is sort of what I have said all along about both Nader and
Sanders: if everybody who said, oh, I really like him, but I won’t vote for
him, because he doesn’t have a chance, had indeed voted for him, we may be
sitting in a very different place now.
But, IMO, this time, that ship has sailed.
Some Bernie supporters have indeed decamped, either to not vote at all or to
the Green or Libertarian candidate. Trump is trying to lure some of them over
to himself, although I’ve never, ever understood the notion of the supposed
similarities between Trump and Sanders.
So voting for the Green Party is, IMO, a dangerous game at this point.
Alice
On Jul 29, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not vote for the Green Party? At least it stands for what you believe
and if enough people do that, the Democratic party will, maybe, begin to get
a message about what people really want. If not, then all the Progressive
Democrats should move their enthusiasm and energy to the Green Party.
Actually, many Bernie supporters already have.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin LaRose
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 1:03 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Very Hard Sell
Kevin LaRoseI've waffled back and forth several times over the past few
weeks about whether or not I'll bite the bullet already and vote for
Hillary. I will probably waffle several times more before Election Day.
Here's what it comes down to for me: Hillary has three months to show me why
voting for her won't initiate a gag reflex. She's not off to a bang-up
start. It would be the hardest thing in the world for me to cast a vote
simply out of fear. But not voting at all isn't an option either. Hillary
can say all the nice things she wants, but actions speak louder than words,
and I don't think I'm going to like where she takes the nation as a whole.
Of course, Trump will take us to even darker places, so there's that to
consider. What's bugging me right now is I'm afraid the Democrats are now
going to try to disappear Bernie and the revolution he started down the
memory hole and pretend it never happened. I'm not sure I can endorse that
with my vote. I'm going to be a hard sell, Hillary, but give it your best
shot anyway.
Anderson, IN
Email: kl1964@xxxxxxxxxx
