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Also not a plan or a solution. You're free to attack me all day - it won't change anything one way or another. I just wish I could hear SOMETHING about what you expect people to do instead of what you expect them to NOT do.

Okay, that may be the case, and that may be fair, but if you're only posting into instances that already support you, is it really helpful?

No third party candidate will win without support. Support must be visible and passionate. And it must be visible and passionate to people who aren't already on your side, otherwise it's an echo chamber. Nobody - not Republicans, not Democrats, not Greens, not Socialists, is going to win by waiting for people to come seek THEM out.

Okay, it's my turn.

The democrats don't inspire you with confidence? Fair.

The greens? The socialists? I've looked at Jill Stein... I've looked at De La Cruz... They don't impress me either. In the same way you don't owe the democrats a vote, progressives don't owe a vote to a candidate just because they're not a republican or democrat. Find someone inspiring and take advantage of the fact the internet has unprecedented reach.

I just looked at your post history. You've been here a year. I don't see a SINGLE post supporting a third party candidate. You're not stumping for Stein... You're not stumping for anybody. Do you want them to MAGICALLY gain support?

Speaking of practicing what you preach.. How am I supposed to get behind a third party candidate when the people who are ostensibly on that side can't even be bothered?

Warning them clearly isn't doing anything. They're not going to change. They're not getting behind anything truly progressive. But I don't see the 3-9% of American voters building an alternative. That's a PRETTY big number - that's millions of people... are they all just content to criticize and not actually MAKE an alternative? The rest of us are here - surely some of you are motivated enough to give US an alternative to the democrats? Why is it the democrats that have to make an alternative that's palatable to YOU? This argument goes both ways, you know.

And the CLINCHER is it doesn't have to be either/or. It's ENTIRELY possible to both do the bare minimum AND also build the alternative at the same time.

But no, we're just gonna ride the worst of both worlds into hell. Fine by me, I guess.

The bare minimum. Admittedly it's not much, but even .0000000000000001 is infinitely larger than 0.

I'm not any less disillusioned with the system than you are. But I also admit to myself honestly that I am not going to get out there and man the barricades. At least the minimum is SOMETHING.

You don't like the options? Fine. You should at least be building another one. What are you, a nihilist?

Everybody buckled in for at least 3 and a half more years of headlines that everyone already knows and nobody will do anything about?

Found the consultant

I feel like it’d be canon for him to be Naomi Wildman’s first officer.

Thanks. This made me spit take on my monitor.