Trump Allies Worked To Keep Jill Stein, Cornel West on Swing State Ballots
Trump Allies Worked To Keep Jill Stein, Cornel West on Swing State Ballots
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Third parties in the US are almost exclusively tools for siphoning votes off the main parties.
But if you still think government runs the show you are out to lunch. Corporations have been dictating policy for a long long time in the US, and the laws are only making it easier for corporations to directly own politicians.
The only one who will change this is if a huge amount of voters organizing and demanding change. Like current levels Republican stochastic terrorism, but for things like healthcare, education, workers rights, consumer rights etc.
Corporations spend a lot of time and money taking these things away from us, and we've been generally watching the middle class disappear for decades.
It will take sustained, active, pressure, and vigilance from the people to make corporate money is not worth it and politicians make decisions based on benefitting their constituents.
Unfortunately, nowadays most constituents only care about making life difficult for others instead of better for everyone including themselves.
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But we can at least start by going after Citizens United. Stochastic that shit please.
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This whole time, I've been seeing West on polls and assuming Kanye West was still on the ballot
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His group, he said, was “fighting back against their vote suppression scheme, leveling the playing field, and ensuring this November’s election will be free and fair.”
That's a bit rich, a GOP group calling Dems out for vote suppression. Pot call the kettle black, anyone?
“The Democrats openly ran around this spring thumping their chests about how they were going to war against third party candidates and trying to limit the choices of the American people at the ballot box,” Collins told RealClearPolitics.
You know what though? If these folks really believe in free and fair - I want to see them spending money on elections where RCV or some other better than FPTP method is used.
Of course they wouldn't because in those cases there's no benefit to the GOP.
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Progressives: The Democrats need to stop going high when the other side goes low. That's why they're always losing.
Democrats: We're going to prop up third party candidates to siphon Republican voters like they do to us.
Progressives: Not like that!
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And the Dems dicked with RFK to get him to run independent instead of possibly getting a Democratic delegate. Both parties will do whatever necessary to make sure the two-party system is maintained and outsiders don't threaten their control. What else is new?
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Rfk is not a dem. He should never have run dem. He’s a republican or libertarian, and also a plant just like Jill to steal votes from dems. Gtfo with that both sides shit.
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Yep. Only in his case, he was so obviously bonkers that he only appealed to Republicans who wanted a slightly different flavor of insanity from Trump, so pushing him was something of a foot-bullet.
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I got my absentee ballot for MI and RFK Jr is listed as Natural Law party. I had to look up what that even is. The Libertarian candidate is Chase Oliver. The ballot has 8(!) choices for president: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Natural Law, and 2 unaffiliated.
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Then the Dems would have nothing to fear by letting him run in the primary, right? Oh wait...if he got even 1 delegate, they couldn't have just handed the nomination to Harris. There might have been a debate or a vote? The party that's "defending democracy" can't have that, I guess.
And in some instances, both sides actually do the same shit. Can you really not see that since at least Perot, if not McGovern, they've both been doing whatever possible to exclude third parties when they're a threat, or support them when it's convenient?
I bet you think professional wrestling is real too...
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That's nice dear, but he's a moderate dem like manchin, pelosi, or that guy that hated video games.
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Yep!!
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Hi friend! I appreciate your work. Keep on fighting the good fight, and maybe Trump will win this one against the duopoly. Thank you!
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I've got to assume they are finally understanding that they need to keep up some kind of facade for this to work. Theyve been incredibly obvious this whole time. Or maybe the handlers finally fired those other morons running the account.
Hey, friend. I don't know what that means. Thank you!
Wow, a mod just deleted that post of mine...
other posters of this type post chaff for this purpose yeah
Was wondering the same thing. wtf is going on here? Something isn’t right.
What do you mean?
Please don't gaslight us. It's a terrible look.