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Until we get ranked choice voting or similar the Green Party is a joke with zero chance of election. Voting for them only helps Republicans at this point in time.
if i would vote for jill stein or cornel west (i mean, i have to be honest, it's nice to have choices) or the libertarian or no candidate at all, how do any of those votes help republicans?
the only vote that helps republicans is a vote for a republican.
Basic math. The stuff most of us learned as children.
these aren't magic phrases that change my vote for one person into a vote for another person.
No shit, it's quite obvious no one is going to change your mind and I'm not trying to. I answered the posed question in a public forum. Turns out other people also read these comments.
your response isn't actually an answer, though. it's just rhetoric.
No, it just seems that way because you don't understand basic math.
You don't know what that is either
Do you have a point? Preferably expressed in words that you know the definitions of