2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you're thinking of voting third party this fall, please reconsider. [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)The problem being that it is impossible to reason with the stupid, the perpetually pissed-off, and the eternally butt-hurt.
If anyone needs an illustration of what Im talking about, I suggest a browse through JPR. What gets posted there is an example of people who would sooner see their country and their fellow citizens plunged into the nightmarish consequences of a Trump presidency than vote for the woman who stole the election from Bernie.
They believe that a Trump presidency will teach the Democrats a lesson, a lesson that will clear the way for their agenda and their candidate-of-choice after the citizenry have suffered sufficiently.
They believe that Trump winning the election will vindicate them, i.e. Trump wouldnt have had a chance against Bernie, and now everyone knows it. We were right all along.
They believe that letting it all burn to the ground will spark The Revolution they envisaged, and lives destroyed in the interim are merely collateral damage to be dismissed as unimportant in the great scheme of things.
They believe that HRC winning the election will validate their worst fear: that the voters do not see her as the blood-thirsty, power-hungry, warmonger they have tried so hard to portray her as.
They believe that Bernie Sanders was the only hope of curing all ills, of righting all wrongs, of clearing the government Temple of the money-changers, the power-brokers, the oligarchs, the corporate masters and were completely convinced that he would do it overnight.
THIS is what were up against. THESE are the people advocating voting third party the enemy within, the so-called True Progressives who would sooner see their fellow citizens hung out to dry than admit that Hillary is the better choice between the two candidates one of whom WILL inevitably end up in the White House, regardless of how many third party candidates are on the ticket.
I suggest you take your pleas for being reasonable and voting intelligently over to JPR. Youll be shot down within minutes as a concern troll who is trying to sway honest Americans from voting their conscience the consequences of doing so be damned.