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75%, you pulled that number out of thin air, I was going to say something else, but decorum prevails..

Push comes to shove, Whether we like it or not, a vote for a third party is indeed a vote for Trump. One can find polls and stats that support our claim, and they do, Quinnipiac is well known to be a Republican polling firm.

I don't disagree, rather I fully agree about tribalism, but you are ignoring that Thrid parties, like the Green party are themselves tribal., as are the Cornell West voters, the majority of whom are male ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves), much more reactionary, and short term thinking than female ADOS.

They are, afterall, males and their sympathies definitely lie with the white male fascists. It is all about an attitude towards women, and how a self organized, self validating women is a threat to an insecure and needy male. Oh they love their mommy, just like Italians and Arabs, but they think of women as inferior, not quite human, creatures, whose sole purpose in life it to breed mini me's, be a nanny to those mini me's, and a sexual and domestic servant.

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https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2023/07/05/gendle-publishes-op-ed-discussing-democratic-resistance-to-third-party-candidates/

I suppose the point is eventually someone has got to tell the truth or the downward spiral will continue. Biden has treated immigrants just as harshly (or moreso) than Trump. His climate policies are one step forwards and two steps back. We are closer to nuclear confrontation than at any time in our history. I'll stick with the guy who actually believes in the tenets of Martin Luther King Jr, not the racist who wants me to believe he does. You've got your guy, I've got mine. I would never tell you to vote for Dr West and don't you tell me to vote for Joe Biden. You can only give me one theoretical reason not to vote for Dr West--Trump--I can give you pages of real reasons not to vote for Biden.

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Stick with Cornell West then, and if enough join your siren call, then suffer the racist, religious, misogynistic, homophobic regime that follows "all hail Caesar" as he turns this nation into a graveyard for those that oppose him..he has already promised that.

Again you sound like a Putin-Trump troll.

As regards the Nuclear threat It is just a scare word, for the weak at knees.

1. If Putin even launches a nuke it is all over for him, He just committed suicide. MAD is still our nuclear doctrine.

2. Nukes take constant maintenance, replenishment, and the Soviet forces (yes, I use the term, because the KGB in the guise of the FSB still controls the populace, and uses the Russian Orthodox priests to keep dossiers on the people, are commanded by Generals and Admirals who have been directing the funds for maintenance to their own accounts, to build Dachas for mistresses and squirrel away funds in foreign real estate and banks.

If I was a tin pot dictator, like Trump or Jong Un, I would wave a nuclear phallus, full well knowing that I was dealing with cowards, who are so spineless that they con't see I am bluffing.

Maybe at the end of a war, they might launch a gottdamerung. Hiitler would have if he had an atom bomb. But that is at the end, when the hand of retribution reaches out and is fatal.

Otherwise Putin, Xi, Jon Ung, can take over the wolrd without firing a gun, simply by waving the nuclear phallus.

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