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John Miksad's avatar

My fantasy is that millions of people vote for anti empire candidates Jill Stein or Cornel West in November to 1) send a message to the corporate duopoly that we are done playing the slightly lesser evil game every 4 years. 2) show others that voting with your conscience is one of many tangible and meaningful non-violent actions that we can take to get off the dead end path on which we find ourselves.

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

As his state co-chairman, I had The Fantasy in 1988 when Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary. I lost it when they squashed him like a bug. There will be no presidential voting our way out of this. Local and state are all that is left, John ...

https://open.substack.com/pub/doc115/p/the-grandest-distraction-of-all?r=18tk5o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Best of luck, friend

~~ j ~~

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gypsy33's avatar

Hi Dr. J

I voted for Pat Buchanan in my state’s primary back then. I never considered myself conservative by a long shot but I approved of his anti-NAFTA stance and his propensity to stand up to IsraHell.

Do you what my husband’s last job was before his GM plant closed? Disassembling dies to send to Mexico and China!

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

Yeah, Pat's comment about Congress being the "Amen corner" for Israel killed his presidential aspirations and destroyed my belief in presidential "elections"

~~ j ~~

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Pauline P Schneider's avatar

It’s my plan. Writing in Jill Stein. Fuck the patriarchy and its Empire.

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Pauline P Schneider's avatar

Vote not because your candidate of choice has a chance in hell of being picked by the MIC to be a warmongering puppet, instead vote for your conscience and to send those bastards a message that we know we are being played and won’t play their game any more.

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gypsy33's avatar

Pauline, this will be my third time voting for Dr. Jill.

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gypsy33's avatar

Jill’s on the ballot here in Michigan. I expect her to get a LOT of votes among the highly-populated I-75 corridor with its diverse population.

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