Some people out there seem to be confused, but I always vote in every local and every national election for every office and every ballot initiative since I was 18 years old. Some of my greatest civil rights heroes have fought and died so that we can all vote and I honor their memory in the ballot box every single time.
To some of us, especially those of us like myself who have been scheduling secretaries for US senators, it often seems like a morally reprehensible choice between compromised corporate Democrats and fascist-minded Republicans. Where I live in California, I have the luxury of voting my conscience for president for third-party candidates that better align with my ideas of justice and equality.
But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off, but don’t just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you’d like to really see without compromise and without apologies before, during, and after election day. And let’s stop the fascists every which way we can. Power the people.
That may be true, but last round, where was the decent third party candidate?
Stein had as part of her platform that Ukraine should surrender to Russia on the name of peace, for example.
that is not what she said
Ok, so the platform page had: “Stop fueling the war between Russia and Ukraine and lead on negotiating a peaceful end” This was just a stupid statement, acting like Russia didn’t just up and unilaterally invade a nation.
She said NATO should be disbanded. She wanted the UN Security Council both to be abolished and yet at the same time wanted the UN Security Council to hold Israel accountable.
Her platform was a lot of Russia’s invasion was actually all the fault of the west and the best way forward was to just capitulate to Russian aggression.
She was just a total shit candidate, with a lot of Russian agenda points featured in her campaign.
she explicitly, and immediately called the Russian invasion illegal.
I want to disband nato. I think the security council should be disbanded.
nato posturing was threatening to Russia. that doesn’t justify the invasion. she never excused it