[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] They let us choose between a child-killer and a job-killer

[C. G. Estabrook]

A minion of the 1% who kills children tends to set a negative tone.


On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 10/29/2012 10:18 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> > ...and we're corrupted by voting for either.
> >
> > In Illinois, the Green party's candidate, Jill Stein, is on the ballot, and one could write-in Rocky Anderson (Justice party), who's been impressive in the third-party debates.
> >
> > The third-party vote in Illinois will probably make more of an impression than abstention.
> Yeah, abstention is not an option unless one just doesn't care, in which 
> case they probably aren't on any of these lists anyway.
> 
> I would note that a number of people have cited a belief that the 
> overwhelmingly negative tone of politics in recent years tends to drive 
> down voter participation, i.e. abstention.
> 
> I would like to think that we each of us does everything we possibly can 
> to avoid such an impression...
> Mike Lehman