Michelle420
Diamond Member
Yes, I voted for her and other Green Candidates. In Texas the electoral votes always go to the GOP so it gives me the room to use my vote to reward third-party candidates for making the efforts to campaign with innovative ideas the other parties need to hear.
This is one quirky advantage of the electoral system giving all votes to the majority party.
I would like to see a system of representation by Party to go along with the House and Senate. Since the First Lady is not an elected position, but still treated as a public figure who can influence party policy, maybe that position could be used to organize a nonprofit nongovernmental network of reps per State and per Party to address key issues to form a consensus on each (or at least write out an inclusive list of all grievances and differences per issue if these cannot be resolved) to feed to the formal House and Senate before making legislative reforms or proposals, so that any laws should reflect and include all interests equally and not just that of the majority party. If this could be set up, I would recommend the Green practice of consensus decision making to facilitate and filter all the input from different parties on different issues to feed to the other parties or Congress. Especially where parties disagree, at least delineating the reasons and limits each party stands for would help protect due process and equal representation regardless of beliefs.
She's a spunky little lady, I watched the 3rd party debates, I didn't vote for her though but I would have a drink with her.![]()
I would love to create jobs for all the 3rd Party candidates, by incorporating paid internships for them in the campus plans for restoring my neighborhood as a national historic district and model for govt reform. They could each pick a program or a problem they want to prove they have a solution to, and demonstrate how to fund and manage it effectively as part of their campaign for a future office or job.
Meanwhile our friend Dante here, who judges people by failures, can join losing candidates for a beer so they can cry in their mugs when their trial and error projects don't work out. Boo hoo. Oh to be human and have to learn from experience. What a tragedy that this involves fumbling and bumbling in public, making mistakes and trying things that fail the first 999 times before you make a break through. That's a lot of beer to pay for, we'd have to film the candidates' projects as a reality show and sell ads to cover those costs! Why not just be magically perfect the first time, and every time, and not pull any Clint Eastwood's or Jill Stein's. Not in public. We can't have people judging us for being failures!
But thank Dante for people like Dante!
Otherwise, we'd have to rely on some made up God to judge us as failures based on "made-up religious morals"
when we can have friends like Dante to judge us by whatever "human empathetic instincts" determine failure instead!
Oh what joy to know we don't need religion when we have Dante, I'll drink to that!
Cheers!
Jill Stein has a charm to her for sure, honestly I remember when she got arrested for the chaining herself to a bulldozer thing and (this makes me smile as I type it) when she was debating Gary Johnson, he was real high strung in the last debate between them and she was real laid back, I kept thinking...she'd be fun to smoke a joint with or get drunk with she's an old school hippie who wants to recycle.

Dante is a true blue intellectual, I can't match his wit nor his intelligence on the vast subjects he knows. As far as judgment goes, the cerebral types separate emotion from intellect. Dante is more of an intellectual. ( side chair analysis over lol)
I follow more of a social constructionist point of view and because of that I look at the motives and acts for policy and not so much the intellectual design.

Can I come work for ya?
