2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Switch Jill Stein votes to Clinton, and just half of Gary Johnson votes, and here's what you get: [View all]Scruffy1
(3,493 posts)Some people simply would rather let a Trump takeover than vote for Clinton. They are small and not a problem and are entitled to their vote. The real problem is the 40% who didn't show up because neither candidate earned their vote. Blaming others for your electoral failures will get us nowhere. We need to be objective and realize that votes are earned. Obviously a whole lot of people felt that it made no difference to them because they felt that they would get screwed either way or just could see no difference it would make in their daily lives. Yeah, the media is against us and it always will be because it's corporate big business. Yeah, the Republican Party will always be shit throwing monkeys because that's what they are good at. Elections will be hacked and voters repressed and their will always be some third party voters. We know this going into the game. They are obstacles to be overcome, and any good candidate knows this. No self centered creep like Jill Stein is going to give you anything, so you might just as well get over it. You knew when the race started the field was not level and so you have to be a lot better than the opponents to win. Going around blaming others isn't going to accomplish anything. Instead we need to keep working on rebuilding the Party to be more inclusive of those on the left, center and the non motivated voters.