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Ellen Schwartz's avatar

Zara, I came here from your Seabiscuit post on the God Pod. (I was looking to see if I’m going to be excommunicated for my criticism of the centrist Democrats.) I live in California so it doesn’t matter who I vote for for president, but for the past 60 years, i’ve been refusing to vote for the preordained candidates. When people say I’m throwing away my vote, and I reply then we should have ranked choice voting so I can vote my actual choice but say if that one doesn’t meet the threshold give my vote to the lesser of the remaining evils, then I get a lecture about positive versus normative. Yeah I’m sorry. I’m focusing on what should be. My whole life in fact. So? Maybe if more people were obsessed with what should be, then maybe it would be. Anyway, I like your style. Keep it up.

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Heather Blankenship's avatar

Sea Biscuit was one of my heroes growing up and now at 60 I’m happily giving my vote to RFK Jr. if for no other reason than to give the proverbial finger to the two party racket system and hopefully usher in a new presidential election that gets rid of the electoral college and has ranked voting!! These bought and paid for “news” outlets should be ashamed of their blatant attacks on our election process. Thank you for your thought provoking and well written post.

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