2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Remember the people who were saying we should be nice to Jill Stein? [View all]hunter
(39,995 posts)Jill Stein doesn't represent me.
I'm a practical voter. I'm enthusiastically supporting Hillary Clinton in this election.
Left wing anti-intellectualism and fascism are as distasteful to me as right wing anti-intellectualism and fascism.
We won't make this nation a better place by telling people what they need. We make this nation a better place by asking people what they need and figuring out how to deliver it, usually by means of very messy politics.
I'm far to the left of Obama, or California Governor Jerry Brown, but both men are very competent leaders who have cleaned up the messes left by their predecessors and have accomplished many great things.
Hillary Clinton will be a similar leader.
Years ago I was a Sierra Club member. I quit because it was a bunch of clueless white people who didn't recognize the absurdity of someone with an affluent lifestyle calling themselves "green." Any resident of a Brazilian Favela has a much smaller impact on the earth's environment than somebody who lives in a big house, drives a "green" automobile and takes yearly airline vacations to places like Tibet.
The affluent U.S. lifestyle is not, and never can be, green.
Sorry, Kermit...
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