AOC is right: Jill Stein’s campaign is not serious
AOC is right: Jill Stein’s campaign is not serious
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines for calling perennial Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein “predatory” and “not serious.” AOC is right.
Giving voters more choices is a good thing for democracy. But third-party politics isn’t performance art. It’s hard work — which Stein is not doing. As AOC observed: “[When] all you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious.”
To be clear: AOC was not critiquing third parties as a whole, or the idea that we need more choices in our democracy. In fact, AOC specifically cited the Working Families Party as an example of an effective third party. The organization I lead, MoveOn, supports their 365-day-a-year efforts to build power for a pro-voter, multi-party system. And I understand third parties’ power to activate voters hungry for alternatives: I myself volunteered for Ralph Nader in 2000, and that experience helped shape my lifelong commitment to people-first politics.
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A spoiler is something that only exists in the mind of Liberals
Dude, I already showed it to you.
Election report for election "Plurality 2 Candidates" Total people: 1047 11% of people supported the winner. Kruger - 112 votes - WINNER Sahl - 111 votes
Election report for election "Plurality 3 Candidates" Total people: 1047 10% of people supported the winner. Sahl - 109 votes - WINNER Kruger - 93 votes Maikol - 91 votes
The overlap of two circles means there will be an area shared in between. That's the math, you can't get around that.
Because it's bullshit
"It's bullshit because it proves I'm full of shit and I don't actually have an argument against it."
it's bullshit because it doesn't prove anything.
And yet none of you have been able to explain how or why it doesn't prove anything. Only making assertions that it doesn't.
it doesn't prove anything. am i supposed to enumerate all the things it doesn't prove?
You're the one making the claim that it doesn't prove anything. You have done nothing to explain how it doesn't. Just saying it proves nothing isn't enough.
if I told you that leaving that comment proves fort Knox is empty, what kind of refutation is appropriate? it doesn't, it makes no sense to claim it does, and no further refutation is necessary.
You’re disagreeing with math. Congratulations, you’ve unlocked the dunce award.
Yet you didn't provide explanation for why it's bullshit. Because you know it isn't. It's right in front of you.
We are not Democrats, so we will not vote for Democrats. They could show all the fucking graphs in the world, And wouldn't change the fact that we are not Democrats, so we do not vote for Democrats.
You're basically saying that there is zero overlap in the venn diagram of third party voters and blue voters, yet you make efforts to convince blue voters to go third party. You know damn well that there is overlap between third party voters and blue voters, otherwise you'd never talk to them.
Even if you personally would never vote blue, third party voters are not a monolith, there are third party voters that are closer to the DNC than you are.
ou make efforts to convince blue voters to go third party. Y
did that happen?
Their whole account is filled with shitting on blue candidates to convince people to abandon them.
why can't they just be shitting on blue candidates? why are you assigning a motive?
seems like you're still projecting motive to me.