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[–]missdaisycan 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Since 1978, I've been voting as an independent, even when I couldn't register as one. But that requires effort - researching candidates and their supporters - and voting for the best one EVEN if they're a third party. 42 years I've been saying no vote is ever a wasted vote. Third party or cross party voting is advocating; it's saying NO! And if more of my idiot peers and our parents had done so, MAYBE things wouldn't be so bad now. But everyone FEARS THIS is the most important moment, so they need to stay the course. Hindsight shows me there were few "most important moments". The Chinese think in eons, Americans think in the moment.

I agree with previous commenter: split branches to slow progression, though don't kid yourselves that both sides aren't being bought with the same money.

(edit. bad at math today)

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    [–]Lucretia 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    You’ve got to be frigging kidding.

    [–]ThisReality 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    thank god, someone else who either didn't drink the Bernie koolaid or, like me, initially chugged it and then barfed it back up.

    [–]Lucretia 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Ha, I was the same in 2016 but thankfully came out of the fog some months before the general — not dissimilar to my Damascus revelations while trying to self-justify TRA!