The Daily Populous Monday September 30th, 2024 morning edition
Authored by latimes.com and submitted by JoeNooner

To the editor: The Times published a letter from a physician who expressed disgust at Vice President Kamala Harris’s laughing over shooting a home intruder and proclaimed he will vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in protest.

Does he simply not understand that a vote for Stein is essentially a vote for former President Trump, and the extent to which society’s preoccupation with guns and gun violence would flourish under another Trump administration?

In 2016, close to 132,000 people in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania voted for Stein. Hillary Clinton lost these three states by a combined margin of about 80,000 votes. If those presumed principled and environmentally conscious Stein voters had cast their votes for Clinton, we would have avoided the divisiveness, incompetence and hatefulness of Trump over these last eight years.

Let’s not allow that to happen again. Please use your views on guns and the gun lobby’s misuse of the 2nd Amendment to petition Congress and state legislatures to work toward an end to America’s epidemic of gun violence.

Please don’t let perfection be the enemy of informed judgment.

To the editor: Whenever I read about someone casting a “protest vote” in the upcoming presidential election, I wonder what they are protesting.

Are they protesting the right of reproductive freedom for women? Are they protesting the right to vote in free and fair elections? Are they protesting democracy itself?

Any so-called protest vote is not a protest at all. It’s a vote for the disgraced ex-president who wants to be king.

Safrel on September 29th, 2024 at 19:06 UTC »

It took me far too long to realize that the green party is just a right-wing spoiler party.

Really, the US needs a viable progressive wing of the democratic party if we're going to get meaningful "green" change.

flaaaacid on September 29th, 2024 at 18:33 UTC »

She’s the Pennywise of American politics: swoop in on a predicable cycle, cause chaos, and go back to sleep for a few more years.

memomem on September 29th, 2024 at 18:20 UTC »

yep, that true, the below article is about 2016, still true today:

Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166

she's trying to earn her bonus as putin's tool to get trump elected.

Guess Who Came to Dinner With Flynn and Putin

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696

mike flynn was paid 45,000 to be at that table. i wonder over the years how much jill stein has been paid by russia, not just for that dinner, but for 2016, 2024 campaigns.