I encourage everyone who is considering not voting this year to remember that the right to obtain 21st century maternal healthcare, as well as a family's ability to family plan, are being stripped away by religious zealotry. Women are being criminalized for not living their life like some hypocritical bible thumpers decree. Those bible thumpers got into positions of power through gerrymandering and flat out lying about their intentions. Every single person in America is affected by this either directly or through family and friends.
Vote for your daughters who may not even be old enough to vote but will pay the price if the American people let religious zealots take over.
Another reason to vote for the imperfect Dems this year is that Trump will never leave office and his cronies will make life for all of us much worse than it is now. For a long, long time.
The issue of transgender people will not go away no matter who is in office and needs to be worked through. Am I the only one thinking that all those chemicals that have been showered on our land, air, food, and water are a possible part of the reason young people today have screwed up hormones? Many of the chemicals in our environment are known hormone disruptors yet pregnant women have zero protection.
"If he/she is rational, a citizen will vote only if the expected gain from voting (namely, the probability that that vote will make a difference in electing their preferred candidate, multiplied by the difference in utility between the preferred candidate and that candidate's opponent) exceeds the cost of voting (Riker and Ordeshook, 1968)."
When we, as Black People in the United States, see endless attempts to purge us from voter rolls, to marginalize our suffrage to vote (unlike any other group; as usual), rigged elections (Gore 2000, Clinton 2016 and Trump 2020; let alone how Bernie Sanders was shafted) and none of the societal metrics that affect us move in a positive direction alongside undesirable candidates across the board, for any European-American to tell us to make a choice between poisons is an abject insult and indicative of a maternalistic/paternalistic white supremacy. Invoking my female children (all of whom are young adults) from a European-American woman's perspective is a tactical error.
Nonetheless, you are always a salient and intelligent voice and your perspective and opinion is valued, for you always bring a well-reasoned, logical contribution to matters at hand. Thank you Blue.
The only path forward truly is complete upheaval. To think any system, by simply taking hostage the word "democracy", wouldn't violently implode in itself is ludicrous. The point of those wealthy, European American at the "founding" was the same as the one today, too keep a relegated,oppressed demographic as the lower caste. They all just try out new gaslighting to obfuscate the truth. Yet, as another darker skinned population is gleefully slaughtered by these colonizer minded bigots, they won't even see the rug pulled out until they're in pieces on the ground. Thank you for your voice.
I vote local, and sometimes state, because it is possible that my vote is an actual vote in those races.
Casting a vote in a national election counts in exactly two ways.
1) It lends authority and legitimacy to the police state that has its boot on your adam's apple. Please stop doing that.
2) It makes cheating to swing the swing states easier.
For those of you still pretending election results have to do with who voted for whom-- first, I am sorry you are a damn fool. Really. That's awful. Second, when you see election results within a few thousand votes in a state with millions of voters, you are looking at ballot fraud. The day after the 2016 election, the actual vote count <nationwide> stood about fifty thousand votes apart. If that happened once in a hundred years, all the smart people would be extremely suspicious and demand a criminal investigation. But it happens every election, in swing state after swing state: Because that's what it looks like when both sides are stuffing ballot boxes as fast as they can, and trying to time their precinct reporting so as to be the last one to turn their boxes in. And it doesn't even get a mention in the press because for one thing, most journalists are about as numerate as rats, and for another, exposing the corruption of the electoral process would be bad for the press's corporate owners, so huh uh, naw.
In the primary, your best vote is Uncommitted. In the general, your best and most potent vote is to cross your arms, look the vampires in the eye, and say, "Almost daylight. Ain't you got a hole to crawl in?"
I encourage everyone who is considering not voting this year to remember that the right to obtain 21st century maternal healthcare, as well as a family's ability to family plan, are being stripped away by religious zealotry. Women are being criminalized for not living their life like some hypocritical bible thumpers decree. Those bible thumpers got into positions of power through gerrymandering and flat out lying about their intentions. Every single person in America is affected by this either directly or through family and friends.
Vote for your daughters who may not even be old enough to vote but will pay the price if the American people let religious zealots take over.
Another reason to vote for the imperfect Dems this year is that Trump will never leave office and his cronies will make life for all of us much worse than it is now. For a long, long time.
The issue of transgender people will not go away no matter who is in office and needs to be worked through. Am I the only one thinking that all those chemicals that have been showered on our land, air, food, and water are a possible part of the reason young people today have screwed up hormones? Many of the chemicals in our environment are known hormone disruptors yet pregnant women have zero protection.
"If he/she is rational, a citizen will vote only if the expected gain from voting (namely, the probability that that vote will make a difference in electing their preferred candidate, multiplied by the difference in utility between the preferred candidate and that candidate's opponent) exceeds the cost of voting (Riker and Ordeshook, 1968)."
When we, as Black People in the United States, see endless attempts to purge us from voter rolls, to marginalize our suffrage to vote (unlike any other group; as usual), rigged elections (Gore 2000, Clinton 2016 and Trump 2020; let alone how Bernie Sanders was shafted) and none of the societal metrics that affect us move in a positive direction alongside undesirable candidates across the board, for any European-American to tell us to make a choice between poisons is an abject insult and indicative of a maternalistic/paternalistic white supremacy. Invoking my female children (all of whom are young adults) from a European-American woman's perspective is a tactical error.
Nonetheless, you are always a salient and intelligent voice and your perspective and opinion is valued, for you always bring a well-reasoned, logical contribution to matters at hand. Thank you Blue.
Just so you know, my missive was directed toward your readers.
I figured so, Blue.
You are tops among the hundreds of geniuses that occupy this this neighborhood and I thank you for moving in.
The only path forward truly is complete upheaval. To think any system, by simply taking hostage the word "democracy", wouldn't violently implode in itself is ludicrous. The point of those wealthy, European American at the "founding" was the same as the one today, too keep a relegated,oppressed demographic as the lower caste. They all just try out new gaslighting to obfuscate the truth. Yet, as another darker skinned population is gleefully slaughtered by these colonizer minded bigots, they won't even see the rug pulled out until they're in pieces on the ground. Thank you for your voice.
Thank you for yours, Scott.
I vote local, and sometimes state, because it is possible that my vote is an actual vote in those races.
Casting a vote in a national election counts in exactly two ways.
1) It lends authority and legitimacy to the police state that has its boot on your adam's apple. Please stop doing that.
2) It makes cheating to swing the swing states easier.
For those of you still pretending election results have to do with who voted for whom-- first, I am sorry you are a damn fool. Really. That's awful. Second, when you see election results within a few thousand votes in a state with millions of voters, you are looking at ballot fraud. The day after the 2016 election, the actual vote count <nationwide> stood about fifty thousand votes apart. If that happened once in a hundred years, all the smart people would be extremely suspicious and demand a criminal investigation. But it happens every election, in swing state after swing state: Because that's what it looks like when both sides are stuffing ballot boxes as fast as they can, and trying to time their precinct reporting so as to be the last one to turn their boxes in. And it doesn't even get a mention in the press because for one thing, most journalists are about as numerate as rats, and for another, exposing the corruption of the electoral process would be bad for the press's corporate owners, so huh uh, naw.
In the primary, your best vote is Uncommitted. In the general, your best and most potent vote is to cross your arms, look the vampires in the eye, and say, "Almost daylight. Ain't you got a hole to crawl in?"
Affirmative; it's the same one most of their heads are in.
ha ha ha ha! Good one.
I needed that.
Soon, everything will be owned by Google, Amazon, Apple and Elon Musk(rat).