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Grandma's Joy's avatar

Will vote for RFKJr - all of our institutions have been captured by corporate interests.

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Frank Schaeffer's avatar

Be careful who you tell because aside from white people, nobody else in America would even dream of throwing their vote away on anti-vaccination outsider candidates with absolutely no chance of winning and the extreme privilege of that choice *will* come off as deeply insulting to the people whose lives another Republican presidency would decimate.

Donald Trump fomented a terror attack on our Capitol in an attempt to steal an election and has been making baseless claims of voter fraud for years after he literally tried to steal the election by rigging up a fraudulent vote count in Georgia. We have to bring a united front to the 2024 election and vote in the largest block possible so that their machinations can not unravel our democracy. As far as the institutions being captured by corporate interests, if that is your sole issue, the one issue that you are going to the polls for, the only issue that affects your life, an issue which is completely outside of LGBTQIA+ and Women's Rights, Black Lives, Education, Gun Violence, Economic Disparity, Food Insecurity, Voting Integrity, Homelessness, The Rise of White Christian Nationalism, and the host of real problems that are affecting every *other* American's lives, a vote for RFKJr *will not ever* address it, and the Republicans are unreachable on that front, because they *like* selling off our government to corporate interests. Winning and holding the Democrats' feet to the fire is the only way to address it.

Protest votes never, ever help. They only hurt.

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Grandma's Joy's avatar

Frank, Christ is Risen!

Since I am unable to respond to your post directly, I'll respond here. Frank - we're all falling prey to the dialectic, and the question is: cui bono? I have been shocked that Democrats have given themselves over to divisive rhetoric that pits whites against blacks, straight against LGBTQ+, Christian against non-Christian, etc etc. Both parties have an open door policy towards corporate interests (how are so many of them, both Dem and Repub, multi multi millionaires on government salaries cf https://twitter.com/pelositracker_)? There are revolving doors between *all* of our federal agencies and Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Entertainment, Multi-national corporations who do not have our interests at heart, Big Big Big....and the little guys end up fighting each other over the scraps - why? Because the dialectic happens.

A vote for RFKJr is a vote that is not thrown away. A vote for RFKJr is a vote for a Democratic party that has not been captured by corporate interests, and a vote against the Republican party that long ago ceded that ground. Much love!

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Frank Schaeffer's avatar

Oh, I get it. You want a political outsider so you're voting for a Kennedy.

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Grandma's Joy's avatar

No, I want someone who has experience prosecuting corruption. Our federal governmental institutions are corrupt to the core. I also want someone who won't engage in "othering" the "other". My brother is my life - my brother is a Person. I want a President who reminds us of that fact.

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Theodore Bosen's avatar

It needed saying!

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