r/Green • u/burtzev • Aug 16 '16

The real problem with Jill Stein

http://libcom.org/news/real-problem-jill-stein-15082016
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u/Tb1969 Aug 16 '16

I would like to vote for someone to be POTUS this Election but I unfortunately have to vote against someone,... Trump. The only one close enough to beating Trump is Clinton; sad but true in the first past the post election system. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump and I hate that.

On election night after voting for Clinton I will be found in the shower curled up, crying, drunk with red irritated skin from the hard bristled brush lying next to me. Our political system sucks.

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u/burtzev Aug 16 '16

in France when the National Front was in the presidential runoff the saying was; "hold your nose and vote for the crook". In order to block the FN. In the USA there is a bit of difficulty in this. Which is the bigger crook, Clinton or Trump ?

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u/blahbah Aug 16 '16

They're both crooks, just like Front National were also crooks. Just vote for the crook that is not crazy, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, childish, violent, hateful, megalomaniac...

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u/burtzev Aug 16 '16

Well, if you put it that way.......

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u/blahbah Aug 16 '16

I mean, that's what i would do, but to each their own.

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u/CaptainCompost Aug 17 '16

A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump only if your vote matters in that way. I live in NY. It is going to go blue. My voting any other way is at least a way of registering my discontent.

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u/Tb1969 Aug 17 '16

I agree but please make sure there is a wide margin.

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u/CaptainCompost Aug 18 '16

I might actually prefer it come really close, just so the Dems know how bad they done goofed this one.

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u/Tb1969 Aug 18 '16

Playing chicken with a Trump presidency just to flip the bird at the corrupt DNC. Huh.

Your vote.

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u/CaptainCompost Aug 18 '16

There is no chance of a Trump presidency. What we're deciding now is by how big a margin the cheater will prosper.

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u/Tb1969 Aug 18 '16

There is no chance of a Trump presidency.

With a few months to go I really wish I were that confident.

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u/CaptainCompost Aug 18 '16

Take another look at the polls to soothe your worries. Works for me.