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Sure, credit where credit is due, but keep it in proportion to the deed and in the context of past acts and omissions.

Oh, and Kamala Harris being “not Biden” doesn’t automatically make her a great, or even a good, candidate for president. This just elevates her from NPC to main character — for better or for worse.

I still pray that a vigorous multiparty system with real choice will emerge in my lifetime. Amen.

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For even more context ... since 1920, only four third-party candidates have won at least one electoral vote in U.S. presidential elections. And the most recent of those was more than half a century ago, in 1968, when racist demagogue George Wallace — representing the American Independent Party and campaigning on a platform of segregation — won 46 electoral votes by carrying five states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Hell, at this point, I'd take as a starting goal: Let's see if one or more non-racist third-party presidential candidates, individually or even collectively, can win at least 1/3 the popular vote in any state. Perot, in 1992 in Maine, came closer than anyone since Wallace, but Perot and other third-party candidates combined still only won about 30.85% of the vote that year in Maine.

I don't know how we overcome the belief (stigma?) that voting for a third-party presidential candidate is throwing away your vote — or even tantamount to not voting at all.

You and me both. What’s crazy is it seems to me when I have conversations in the wild that A LOT of people think we’d be better off with more than 2 choices. But yet many of those same people won’t take the necessary step of actually voting for a 3rd party to begin the process of showing the world it’s actually possible. 

The last candidate that even came close was Ross Perot when I was like 5. 

This country isn't meant for multi party elections, for better or worse.  

Kamala is more than qualified, and will show herself to be a perfect candidate to go up against two men who want to restrict women's rights

Lmfao the dnc created another crisis and their answer to the crisis is, fuck over progressives again, I'm so fucking shocked