I just read that of the 500,000 elected posts in the US the Greens hold… 149.
That’s not a political party that’s a vibe.
But I probably should say to the people being labelled “luxury” and “tantrum” voters, I get it because I was one of you. There was definitely a point in the not so distant past when the column A column B list you can run against parties in a Two Party System was so close it really came down to “tone”.
What’s shifted my position on this is a number of factors. The largest being that column A column B list now has actual Blood & Soil fascism padding out the additional “bad” things that tip into outright oppression.
I’m a comfortable, white, straight-ish dude. At a purely selfish level modern politics don’t have an impact on me beyond vibes and maybe so taxes going up or down. So when I vote, it’s not really “for me”. I’m doing it because after years of rage I realise that there are other people outside of my “this particular issue doesn’t impact me.” Because these issues do impact me if I open my gaze. I don’t want a society that is on an endless war against migrants, the queer community, solo mothers, whatever the fuck “woke” means. There’s a long list here. Including the fact I have two young daughters growing up in this world. Maybe they’ll be gay, marry an immigrant, could have kids and get divorced… even just dealing with shitty men.
So now I line up the two options, because there are only two. Both options are going to have “I
war” in their columns. That’s baked in, it’s not going to change this time because I voted Green or Workers Party of Great Britain (fuck those guys). So, you cross off all the common ghoulishness from each party until you get to the differences. In the UK those differences between the Tories and Labour were significant enough for me to put a peg on nose, again, and vote… Jeremy Corbyn because he’s my local MP but if it was in a marginal or swing area I would have voted for the party most likely to stop the Conservatives. Why, because on the cuntometer they were hitting 95%, with Labour / Lib Dems were on around 80%.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.