Posted on 10/20/2016 7:51:14 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
I was 19 when Eric Garner was choked to death by the police. Seeing that video of his death over and over again as it spread across Facebook felt like waking up to reality. Within days, I joined my first political protest: a “die-in” in my college’s student center, symbolizing our stand against police brutality.
I’m now 21 years old, in the midst of my senior year at Simpson College in Iowa, and this will be my first time voting in a presidential election. Systemic racism is the most important issue to me, and my views on that topic and many others are far to the left of both Trump and Clinton. That’s why I’m choosing to vote for Jill Stein in my home battleground state of Iowa.
I face a lot of stigma for my choice to vote third party. People tell me I’m wasting my vote, or that I’m just trying to be different. But they are completely missing the point of why I’m choosing to do this. To me, my vote represents a moral choice. It reflects who I am as a person.
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I think generally speaking if you raise your kids to be irresponsible entitled people with no responsibility they turn into adults who vote democrat.
It’s their right.
Good news this is a lost vote for Hillary not Trump. I expect many far left leaning people will either not bother to vote or will vote for Jill.
I find it hard to gauge the Die Hard Bernie people. I do not agree with Bernie’s positions except No on TPP, but they got royally screwed by Hillary and the DNC and the proof gets worst every time there is a Wikileak data dump.
A Trump vs Bernie would have been a straight up Capitalism vs Socialism battle, the current Trump Vs Hillary is Americanism vs Pure Evil.
In the midst of my senior year in college, I think quantum mechanics may have been the most important issue to me.
Agreed.
Far too many parents abrogate their responsibilities in raising their children.
Sure, there are those that do everything right and their kids still turn out wrong, but in the main it’s the parents who hold the final cards on how their children turn out.
Incidentally, this is partially offset by those parents that do everything wrong and their kids still turn out right!
Income has little or nothing to do with good parenting. Commitment and discipline and unselfishness and love is what it takes. Not to mention Church every week - as a family.
Dear Shawn,
Fat, dumb and drunk is no way to go through life.
Because he’s twenty-one and Really, really really Smart.
That’s good
because she would probably vote for hilLIARy otherwise
But just remember, if Jill Stein was any threat to hilLIARy they would currently be making her seem worse than Trump.
The ONLY vote to defeat Hillary is to vote for TRUMP!
All other actions enable Hillary.
Shawn Schossow — just his name sounds like a commie, hipster, sodomite.
That lie still lives. Garner was a heart attack waiting to happen who fought police and died of one. It's not possible to say "I can't breathe" or anything else if you're not breathing.
But if it steals a few million votes from Hillary I'll give it a pass.
Really? Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate in 2000, may have cost Al Gore the election. It could happen again.
If Green candidates take votes away from Democrats without providing a real alternative to Democrat policies -- which may or may not be true -- then they really are not part of the Democrat machine, but rather a very clever opponent of it. Or are they part of the Republican machine?
First off, anyone who wants to reject Hillary’s shocking level of corruption but doesn’t want to vote for Trump because the media says he’s a big meanie or whatever, I heartily encourage you to vote for Jill Stein. Look at her spray paining bulldozers! She believes in the environment! She will stop global warming!
Looking back, Nader took almost 3% of the vote, that waws all taken from Gore and that year was so close, those number could well have made a difference.
I would say that Nader had less in common with the DNC back then, than Jill Stein honestly has now. The Dems have made a hard left turn since 2000. Jill Stein strikes me as a typical bleeding heart guilty white liberal cat lady and I think she would fight right into the mainstream DNC if she didn’t call herself “Green”.
I’m not saying 3rd parties are always controlled by the major parties, I just think that in this particular election the Green party and to a larger extent the Libertarian party are just meant to pull anti-establishment voters from Trump. I don’t know if the DNC is directly involved, but wikileaks has shown us that they are directly involved in a lot of dirty tricks.
That's the Bernie Sanders factor. Clinton is running farther to the left than she did in 2008, so the differences between Greens and Democrats are less than they may have been in previous years.
Also, Stein isn't much of a draw. A stronger candidate might really cut into the Democrats' percentage. As it is, she's not that relevant -- sort of a boutique candidate.
You're not wrong to suspect that she's window dressing more than anything else. Still, she will take more voters away from Clinton than from Trump, and that won't help the DNC.
“Systemic racism is the most important issue to me”
May I suggest Shawn, that you need to stay focused?
On what you may ask?
Food, shelter and clothing for starters.
Maybe after acquiring some assets, security and moving from your mom’s basement, you can work on other things.
Like not masturbating during the day.
5.56mm
As long as you don’t vote the idiot Clinton!
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