I respect leftists & progressives, particularly in swing states, who have decided to strategically vote for Biden.
Either way, we must #vote AGAINST Trump and his goons.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN
The past few years have been a very public soul-searching process for me. I've become radicalized by the realities around me and I've returned to my anti-establishment roots from the Bush era. The system is deeply corrupt. I will not uphold it one more day.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)
I've given 20 years of my life to fighting the GOP. I quit the Democratic Party this year because the leadership has enabled & empowered Trump. Just like they coddled war criminal Bush. Schumer fast-tracked Trump's judges. Pelosi funded his abuses.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)
The Democratic Party trashed the #MeToo movement without hesitation. They've fought #MedicareForAll more vigorously than #AmyConeyBarrett. They support #fracking. Bail out billionaires. Fund border torture camps. And favor fascists over the left.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)
I'm in my 50s now and more of my life is behind me than ahead of me. What time I have remaining I'll devote to tearing down the #duopoly and building a GOOD world, not just a marginally less awful one. That's my right as a citizen and a human being.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)
My @GreenPartyUS vote is for my children's future. And for the children in cages. The cages that were built by the Obama administration and used by Trump to lock up kidnapped kids. AND NO ONE WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR THAT CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)
I'm Lebanese-American. I barely survived a bloody civil war. I have deep scars from that. I've worked as a farmer, a bartender, a waiter, a musician. I've struggled, I've failed, and I've succeeded. I've seen enough to know the system is CORRUPT.
WHY I'M VOTING GREEN (cont.)
The establishment does not give a shit about oppressed and marginalized people. They are seen as fodder. Trump is a creature of an immoral system. He is part of it, not some aberration. Until we replace the system, injustice will continue unabated.
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2020 is going to be a resounding victory for the Democratic establishment.
Donald Trump would lose to a rusty trash can, but when Biden wins, Dem leaders will claim that shunning the left and embracing Bush-era war criminals is what did it.
THE ESTABLISHMENT WINS
Under the "existential threat" umbrella, Dems convinced high-profile leaders on the left to get in line.
And egregiously, they did that while Pelosi and crew funded Trump's abuses and refused to exercise an iota of power to hold his thugs accountable.
THE ESTABLISHMENT WINS
The result will be a Dem leadership that treats GOP operatives like heroes and leftists like dirt.
And Trump will have locked in the judiciary for a generation, with the help of Dems who folded like a house of cards, most recently on #AmyConeyBarrett.
I'm furious that raging white supremacists occupy the highest offices in our country.
Furious that we're living in a police state where Black people are lynched at will by police, and protestors brutalized and carted off in unmarked vans.
It means you're an adult with the capacity to exercise an informed judgment and make an ethical, carefully considered choice for president. It means you value your vote and understand the stakes in the election.
"VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE"
To vote your conscience is to analyze complex factors, to weigh the outcomes, to be guided by your moral compass, to assess the impact of your choice on others, and to be true to your values and principles.
EVERY vote should be a vote of conscience.
"VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE"
For leftists, progressives, and millions of non-voters who find the extremist GOP abhorrent and the Democratic Party complicit in perpetuating a corrupt, immoral, oppressive system, 2020 is hardly the easy choice it's made out to be.
For nearly 4 years, they've enabled, accommodated, and empowered Trump. Funded his worst policies. (They did the same with Bush, then embraced him and absolved him of war crimes.)
Now, come election time: "VOTE BLUE OR THE WORLD WILL END!!!"
If he was such an existential threat, then why pass his bills, confirm his judges, give his cronies a free pass? Why punt every time you could use your power, lull people with theatrics like tearing speeches, then put the ENTIRE ONUS on voters when the shit hits the fan????
And establishment trolls have the nerve to yell at leftists "you're helping Trump!" while fawning over politicians like Pelosi WHO ACTUALLY HELP TRUMP.
I want all of you to understand what Trump is to politicians like Nancy Pelosi: A cash cow. A fundraising bonanza.
So much for the 2018 blue wave that gave Democrats the House. The Dem leadership has ONE solution for everything: Put the onus on voters and just clap sideways.
A relatively small minority of Americans on the left believe the entire system is corrupt to the core and that the ONLY principled position is to tear it down and not to keep enabling the #duopoly. They see establishment Dems as faux-opposition...
STOP SHAMING THE LEFT (cont.)
Just as you may believe they are responsible for electing Trump, they think YOU are, by upholding a system that put Trump in power.
Just as you may believe they are "purist spoilers," they think you are unprincipled sellouts to the oligarchy...
STOP SHAMING THE LEFT (cont.)
Just as you may think they are helping Trump, they know that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Dem leaders have enabled and empowered Trump, funded his most egregious policies, and fast-tracked his judges. All while raking in "resistance" money...