I feel I'm being taken far more literal than I mean to.
My bad, sorry about that, sincerely. Like, man, I'm not mad(
a little peeved maybe... ) or trying to belittle you or your stance. It's just that my anxiety wracked brain is just sitting here trying to parse how to come to your side of laissez-faire attitude to all this, with
it's just a statement of his precarious position (electorally)
or even,
Yeah, centrists don't do well here it seems.
Because if you think the centrists aren't doing well, then what the fuck is going on with the left? (*This post has taken so long to shape that I realize that this may again have been taken too literally and you probably just mean 'here' as in the forums and I apologize in advance if that has happened again*)
@tippy2k2 has rightfully pointed out that even if you took out all of Stein's votes that they wouldn't make the deficit between Harris and Trump, and this is true because
My God, Stein is looking to pull in less than 1 million votes
nationwide. She's is in the dregs alongside the Libertarian party, whom I did not even know was a party on the ballot. Fucking
Kari Lake has almost twice the amount of votes as the supposed left wing voice of America, in a single race that (knock on wood because I don't trust much else these days) she is going to lose, and she is a fucking loon (and will probably end up everyone's problem anyway when Trump puts her somewhere in his govt. for licking his taint for years). Because,
Even in the stage of electorialism, that's handled at the local level, as your example.
I
know this, and this is what worries me, because speaking of local, while we managed to pass our signature based ballot proposition to put abortion rights in our state constitution, we also had to beat off no less than goddamn three different other propositions that would have made such measures both harder to pull off and easier to tie up and kill, including
removing term limits and our ability to vote whether to retain judges in our state judiciary (such as the two State Supreme Court justices on this very ballot(
and fucking won their retention votes no less!) who allowed a law from before our state even had a constitution, hell much less 'a state' (160 years old!), dictate modern law, what a wild fucking coincidence).
Worse still, not only have we elected one of Joe fucking Arpiao's old deputies to county sheriff (of again, the 4th largest county in the US), we also seem to be passing a proposition similar to our fucking SB1070 fiasco, with the added nonsense of a Supreme Court likely to side with the idea of profiling any vaguely brown person as an illegal (with doubley nebulous passing of a another prop being passed forcing a max sentence of life for child trafficking, which can only go wrong I'm certain). And that's only
here, and then I look out upon a sea of red for all of the main federal branches of government, and can only extrapolate that this is the norm across the board.
Like, you can't just blame this all on some sort of fucked tampering scheme specifically to screw over the Greens, but honestly, from my own cynical, paranoid view, I don't see how one can look at the how the powers that be play the two major parties to ensure the worst candidates that nonetheless tow the line end up in charge, and
not think that they are using the Green Party as a bowling gutter to catch any wayward leftists and funnel their efforts off a fucking cliff. Or have this weird belief that this continual rightward momentum will somehow make it easier to come back in power down the line (from both Democrats and leftists).
EDIT: And I'm sorry if these walls of text seem like I'm arguing or anything, but this is flat-out a genuine cry to try and understand because I have spent over 10 years trying to find the left in this figurative and literal desert and found nothing. And I'm worried that people here have been privileged with being surrounded by people no more to the right than Democrats or like some of the posters here, but as someone who has had the distinct horror of watching the slide into actual fucking Nazism (and before anyone jumps in here at me, I mean full-on "the Nazis had the right idea because there
is a secret cabal of Jews running this flat earth through the power of satanic blood magic" Nazis) up close, the stories pulled up and posted here in the forums about them are the equivalent of finding the corpses of smaller squids while the giant ones lurk further below, and the abyss is dark...