Some people out there seem to be confused, but I always vote in every local and every national election for every office and every ballot initiative since I was 18 years old. Some of my greatest civil rights heroes have fought and died so that we can all vote and I honor their memory in the ballot box every single time. 

To some of us, especially those of us like myself who have been scheduling secretaries for US senators, it often seems like a morally reprehensible choice between compromised corporate Democrats and fascist-minded Republicans. Where I live in California, I have the luxury of voting my conscience for president for third-party candidates that better align with my ideas of justice and equality. 

But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off, but don’t just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you’d like to really see without compromise and without apologies before, during, and after election day. And let’s stop the fascists every which way we can. Power the people.

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        I thought I already responded to the uniparty hack, but you did two of them. Piss off. No one, no one of solid mind, agrees with your bullshit. You are the reason we lost in fact.

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            Pretty rich coming from a person who swallowed the fascist shit of Kamala’s campaign and is here asking for a second serving. You lot always want to whine that “this isn’t the time to criticize” the DNC candidate, even in the least consequential of elections. Get fucked.

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              EDIT: I’m editing my replies to you because all you have done is refuse to read anything I wrote, are vocally supporting fascism, and fucking lying about me, trying to make accusations that are untrue. Fuck anyone who does that shit.

              I hope you personally feel the effects of the fascism whose dick you obviously fucking suck. Piss off.

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                And yet you still come out against people in safely Democrat districts voting against the DNC’s anointed candidate when said candidate is absolute dogshit. If your actions belie your words, it only makes you look stupid and hypocritical.

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                  All you have done is refuse to read anything I wrote, are vocally supporting fascism, and fucking lying about me, trying to make accusations that are untrue. Fuck anyone who does that shit.

                  I hope you personally feel the effects of the fascism whose dick you obviously fucking suck. Piss off.

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                    I’ve read what you’ve written. It’s hardly my fault you’ve written a steaming load of shit. Maybe try being a better person, and not sucking up to the fascist apologists? Oh, sorry, fascism in 5 years is sooo much better than fascism in 4.9 years.

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      Vote in primaries if you are happy with the candidates. Primaries on average have about 10% voter turn out.

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        The primaries don’t have good candidates either because of the gatekeepers. There is no way out of this voting under the democratic establishment, and frankly, that you guys don’t see that yet, indicts your understanding.

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          Exactly. So many morons on here think that the “primary” is the first real contest. The “primary” they tell us to focus on isn’t the real primary. The real primary is the money primary - the contest that determines who actually appears on the primary ballot.