This garbage that you're posting is extremely offensive, @mozz. A national abortion ban would subject hundreds of millions of women to potential medical atrocities. Trump is promising to round up approximately ten million Latinos and send them to concentration camps.
Ralph Nader, Mother Jones, and you are helping to make that happen.
Re: last reboost - For me, preventing #Republican victories in as many #elections as possible this year is a bare minimum first goal in a series of many to achieve the transformational results the majority of us seem to want, and definitely need.
No hyperbole: It should be evident now that if we fail and allow a Republican #President or their control (or stalemate) of either body of #Congress, or similar or greater control of state and local positions as now, we're doomed, or dead.
I've never liked #Biden (but voted for him), and since 1980 have hated the cowardice and complicity of the #Democratic party to the point where I didn't vote in 1988-1992.
I voted independent in 1980 and 2000 (#Anderson, #Nader) in a futile effort to signal my disgust, both times ending in the worst possible result.
The #Democrats are the emergency, worst case option, like the levees around #NewOrleans.
Unfortunately, until we collectively build better solutions, we drown without them.
These days Vote Blue No Matter Who means voting for a war criminal who supports genocide, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, has destroyed pandemic precautions and has undermined democracy. Instead Vote Green.
Let's focus on the TRUE cause: The brother of the #GOP nominee was the governor of Florida. The two of them exchanged "convict lists" to kick anyone with a "similar" name convicted of a crime off the voter roles (despite no evidence Texas convicts had voted in Florida.
Some 60,000 black & Hispanic voters were kicked off the voter roles.
You have to remember the political climate in 2000. Bush was seen as incompetent. Gore was handicapped by Clinton's impeachment & sexual misbehavior (remember when those things actually mattered to the #GOP?)
#Nader saw an opening as support for the other two parties was below 50%.
This was also just 8 years after #Perot made it seem like a 3rd Party candidate could actually win.
This guy. Ralph Nader. If he can stop the Greens from supporting Cornell West, fine. But I will not forget his vanity campaign that gave us 8 years of Dubya Bush.
Gift article from WaPo: https://wapo.st/3RvdANj #USPol#Nader#Bush#Biden#ThirdParty
Does anyone like the US #TwoPartySystem? The parties are opaque, private orgs, weak institutions, prone to capture and corruption, and #gerrymandering's "safe seats" means the real election takes place in the party's smoke-filled rooms, selecting the sure-thing candidate:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The #Nader and #Perot campaigns were doomed from the outset, in other words. Either candidate could have been far more popular than the D and R on the ballot, and they still would have lost. It's how the deck is stacked, and to unstack it, reformers would need to take charge of at least one - and probably both - of the parties.
Ralph Nader Would Like to Stop Having to Explain Why the Spoiler Coverage Is Stupid (www.motherjones.com)