{"id":23251,"date":"2016-07-27T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23251"},"modified":"2016-07-27T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:17:10","slug":"why-not-vote-for-jill-stein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/why-not-vote-for-jill-stein\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Vote for Jill Stein?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0727fptp\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0727fptp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0727fptp.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Let me begin by saying that the last thing I want to do here is criticize or impugn Jill Stein.&#160; On the issues I agree more with her than I ever have with any other Presidential candidate, except Bernie Sanders.&#160; She is honest, progressive, egalitarian, and environmentally conscious.&#160; So, now that Bernie has left the race, why not vote for Jill Stein?&#160; I&#8217;ll tell you why not.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The reason not to vote for Jill is the problems built in to First Fast the Post voting.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s7tWHJfhiyo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As much as I like Jill, a vote for her, when she has zero chance of winning, serves only to increase the likelihood of a Donald Trump win.&#160; I don&#8217;t like it, but I&#8217;m not so head-in-the-clouds that I can&#8217;t see that voting for an imperfect Democrat is the only defense against the election of a true monster.&#160; So instead pursuing the self-defeating activity of helping Trump, we need to wait until after this election and work to change the system, state by state.&#160; Alternative Voting is a better way.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3Y3jE3B8HsE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">(Both videos come from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgpgrey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cgpgrey.com<\/a>.&#160; I recommend you check it out.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Alternative Voting were in place, my first choice would be Bernie (write in), my second would be Jill, and my third would be Hillary.&#160; It would make it possible to vote our conscience without contributing to the advent of national socialism.&#160; In the long run, that would be the best thing for the Green party too.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the US, it&#8217;s also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairvote.org\/rcv#rcvbenefits\" target=\"_blank\">Ranked Choice Voting<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me begin by saying that the last thing I want to do here is criticize or impugn Jill Stein.&#160; On the issues I agree more with her than I ever have with any other Presidential candidate, except Bernie Sanders.&#160; She is honest, progressive, egalitarian, and environmentally conscious.&#160; So, now that Bernie has left the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/why-not-vote-for-jill-stein\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}