14-07-2016, 10:49 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I've voted Green in every election except 1988, 1992 and 2008 (Democrat in those cases), and probably will again this year.
I voted for Nader in '96 and Jill Stein in '12.
I would have voted for Cynthia McKinney in '08 but at 7:30pm pst on election day Obama only had a modest lead in the national vote (landslide in the electoral) so I voted against Republican voter suppression. Turned out Obama won by 7% -- he should have won by 10%.
I was set to vote for Nader in '00 but he went into Florida 2 days before the election -- a tilt toward Bush and the eventual slaughter of a million Iraqis.
I'll never forgive Nader for that.
In 2003 I registered Green and only switched to the Dems a couple of months ago so I could vote for Bernie.
I planned to switch back to Green until last week when Jill Stein was quoted as saying Hillary Clinton should be in jail over her "e-mail scandal."
I don't like Dominionist propaganda coming out of the mouth of a progressive.
I don't dig it at all.
In 1992 I wrote in Frank Zappa/Mike Fox. Zappa was a famous musician and Mike Fox is a not famous musician -- both great guitar players.
Zappa tore up Al & Tipper Gore over the Parents Music Resource Center which suppressed the distribution of underground music in the 80's.
My protest vote this year are Iesha Evans, the lady who stood up to the cops in Baton Rouge, and Diamond Reynolds, the woman to filmed the aftermath of her boyfriend's execution in Minnesota...Unless Hillary picks Elizabeth Warren, in which case it may be a new day in American politics.
After all, no candidate in this cycle raised or spent as much as Bernie Sanders.
It's 2016 -- who needs Wall St?

