This why I have rage strike when idiots start blathering about there being no real differences between Clinton and Trump. It’s not Trump who’s going to destroy things. It’s Pence and Ryan and all the other GOP assholes. Oh, I have to vote my conscience. Well, when your gay neighbors can’t get married, your barista…

The irony, of course, is that if Trump or any of his like-minded followers were also randomly stopped and frisked, they’d lose their goddamned minds. They’d be screaming about the Founding Fathers and the “police state” in no time.

Loved Don Cheadle’s line about Trump: “a racist, abusive coward who could permanently damage the fabric of our society” 

It is genuine. I say this as someone who volunteered for the Nader campaign for 2000. I’ve seen this happen before—and I felt the righteousness of fighting for a third party, then lived through the following 8 years. It’s awful seeing the same 2000 logic played out among people who are 10 years younger than me. Every…

It’s actually not his base we have to be worried about convincing. It’s the millennials who hate Clinton so much they are casting purist votes for Johnson or Stein. If Clinton loses this election, it will be because she didn’t have the youth vote locked up like Obama did. And why might that be, I wonder, given that…

Yeah. I have several friends who are deeply worried how this will impact them (the women, including me, on reproductive rights as related to the Supreme Court and Pence, the military folks on ‘oh god Trump as our boss we’re fucked’, Muslims facing discrimination, and so on). There are SO MANY ISSUES Trump is bad on…

Take heed, children: if you want a cookie, don’t try and sneak your hand into the cookie jar; just stuff your entire head into the cookie jar and wear it for a helmet, and people will just keep giving you larger cookie jars to see what you look like bobbing around under them.

Here’s the thing: we have a two-party system because we have a first past the post (winner takes all) electoral system. That’s just the way party systems develop. If we had a parliamentary system—where proportionality had an effect on outcome—and power was less centralized—we would have developed a multi-party system.…

I’m okay with “hivemind”, where “hivemind” = giving a shit about the future of the country.

It’s easy to make a lot of promises when you don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of needing to deliver on them — and I say this as a liberal who is all on board for most of Stein’s ideas at their cores.

What is Stein doing “for the people”? She’s engaged in a quixotic run for the White House. There are only two people running who have an actual chance at winning, and only one of them represents in any fashion the principles a liberal would purport to care about. Stein is actively trying to siphon votes from her. Does…

Jill Stein is in no way qualified to be President. I know plenty of well-educated doctors with admirable moral compasses who have been slightly involved with very local politics, and they aren’t qualified to be President either.

Stein is anti-science, or at least comfortable with courting the votes of anti-science voters.

Yeah it’s totally weird people are worried a racist, sexist, bigoted nutjob will become our president while value voters pat themselves on the back. I can’t imagine why anyone would come to that conclusion on their own. They must be brainwashed!

Younger people have the luxury of believing in principle over practicality - I get it. I voted for Nader in 2000 - and regret it now. Hopefully America still exists after President Trump and your cousin eventually gets to regret his vote.

Yep, they’re terrifying the shit out of me too. . . . .It’s like 2000 all over again with the false equivalencies (though worse). I’m starting to think you had to be around voting age in 2000 to get that just 4 years of a truly bad president is enough to really fuck over the country and the world. I was 16 then, and…

So we’re supposed to believe that a candidate who lost his own party’s primary by over 10 million votes would have cruised to a general election victory?

and please admit that at the end of the day its a sexist move.

Bernie was always completely unelectable. The only reason he showed so well in polls against Trump was that most people polled didn’t know anything about him. That would have changed immediately had he been nominated.

If you are a traditional Democratic voter who chooses to vote for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein or just not to vote, because you “don’t trust” Hillary Clinton, please go ahead and consider yourself my mortal enemy.