Here we go again...My Take on GREENS running in the General Election

[Born_a_Democrat]

For those of you still hung up on how progressive the Democratic party really is or whether Democrats are more left leaning today then they were way back when...FORGET DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS..hell FORGET VOTING...think Balloons and read my TRANSLATION at the bottom of the original post :)

My take is very simple:

97% (or so) of the likely voters in this country (USA) are either

a) Democrats
b) Republicans


this is a fact (with a certain negligeable percentage of error of course) not an opinion

With this FACT in hand we can then postulate the following:



A vote for BUSH is a vote for a Conservative REPUBLICAN administration

A vote for the Democratic Nominee is a vote for a Progressive DEMOCRATIC administration

A vote for Nader (or the Green nominee) is a vote for the GREEN party candidate

I trust noone is lost thus far....well now here's where you have to think a little bit instead of relying on the ol' ideology to bring you home:


The DEMOCRATS and the GREENS have many common goals and opinions; therefore if ALLLLL the votes for the Democrats are added to ALLLL the votes for the GREENS and they total MORE than ALLLLL the votes for BUSH then shouldn't the "progressive party" win the election?

Makes sense huh? well as we all...err...I mean MOST of us know....THE PRECEEDING STATEMENT IS FALSE!!!

VOTES for candidates CANNOT BE COMBINED...therefore if BUSH gets 50 votes and the DEMOCRAT gets 40 votes and the GREEN gets 30 votes then (stay with me here)...BUSH WINS!!!


Conclusion:

By voting for BUSH, you help the Republicans.

By voting for the Democratic Nominee you help (that's right) the DEMOCRATS (good..you're getting this).

By voting for the Green Candidate you help.........the REPUBLICANS!!



Is there ANYONE that can dispute those FACTS?!? ANYONE???

And I don't mean with the same tired argument of "we're voting to make sure the party gets noticed"....because that still will not dispute the fact that what helps your party gets noticed...HELPS THE REPUBLICANS.....and if that's actually your goal...then by all means do it....just as long as you know what you're REALLY doing...

By the way here is the article I'm talking about with this post:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/11/07/greens/index.html



TRANSLATION
If you have a RED balloon, a BLUE balloon and a GREEN balloon and a tank of AIR that contains 100 cubic feet of air and someone tells you:

Fill each of these balloons with air until there is no more air


If you fill the RED balloon with 40 cubic feet of air, the BLUE balloon with 35 cubic feet of air and the GREEN balloon with 25 cubic feet...WHICH BALLOON WINS??

I thought about defining what the colors mean but if I have to do that for you then it should be impossible to know what all these squiggles on the screen mean so it would be pointless to explain anyway.