Please answer my questions. I asked them in all seriousness.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @chesaboudin
I did. The bottom line is, they're innocently (I hope) faulty framing. Voting 3rd party in 2000 and 2016 at least didn't give the Dems or Reps a larger, undeserved mandate. It's a shame more of us didn't have the courage of our convictions.
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Gore & Clinton lost on their own. Though Trump is horrific, Clinton would have been, too. (Remember: HRC gave us Trump via her Pied Piper strategy, and by being a toxic candidate.) Again, by far the best 2020 strategy is to
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Replying to @gaijingirl2004 @chesaboudin
You haven’t answer my question: how did voting for the Green candidate in 2000 or 2016 help the left?
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Replying to @SustainableFred @chesaboudin
Yes, I did answer Voting for the Green candidate in 2000 & 2016 didn't support the duopoly. That inherently helped the left, & would have done more, if more people had the courage of their convictions. Let's flip that - how did voting for Hillary "help the left"?
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Answer - it HURT the left. Because it was that many less votes for Green. And Hillary failed to acknowledge the huge chunk of her vote which wasn't FOR her. They were fear votes against Trump. Factoring that out, she only garnered approx 20% populace. Pathetically low.
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Replying to @gaijingirl2004 @chesaboudin
I never said voting for Hillary was helping the left - THERE IS NO PRESIDENTIAL OPTION TO HELP THE LEFT. The best we can do is stay out of it, focus our energy on electoral reform like
#RankedChoiceVoting (on the ballot in MA and elsewhere this year), progressive local candidates1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SustainableFred @chesaboudin
Wait - so you're arguing we shouldn't vote at all? What does THAT accomplish, given that any no-vote is immediately disregarded as voter apathy?
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And - to reiterate:
#votegreen does help the left. If we get to 5%, that's matching federal funds. And if we don't get to 5%, but find evidence of election rigging? That's a plus, too. Ammo to use against the duopoly, and force changes in the system.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @gaijingirl2004 @chesaboudin
Again - this 5% argument was made in 2000 and 2016. Didn’t pan out to any meaningful benefit then. Why believe it will now?
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Trump was never the President before 2016. Does that mean he couldn't have won, and we're now in an alternate, quantum universe?
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