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(88,856 posts)You make a worthy point here. And it feeds into an issue that I think I'm gonna get awfully repetitive about in the months ahead. WE HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER! AND WE HAVE TO VOTE! Because it's awfully easy just to throw up your hands and say "screw it, why bother to vote? Won't make any difference
" And this election cycle especially, we simply cannot afford to do that! We can't afford to get discouraged and give up! We just CAN'T! And we can't decide we must stay home in a huff because the "perfect" candidate we favored didn't get very far and we're left with the lesser of two evils and so somehow that is an unacceptable choice and not worth voting for. WE CAN'T!!!! We can't afford to do that!!!! Cooler, more level and more logical heads MUST prevail here. And as I've said before, I'll take a shitty Democrat over ANY republi-CON, even a "good" one (yeah, good republi-CON my ass!), ANY DAY.
I've had, thankfully, a very few small run-ins with folks here. I am grateful that somehow, despite my own assholishness and annoying people with my longwinded opinionated bushwa, most people here have been patient and forgiving and tolerate me kindly. Awhile ago, I gave myself a nickname for it - the insufferable bloviating schmuckette.