I have spent this evening learning about the candidates who are running in our local elections. Yes, I should have done this a long time ago, but, here we are. I have figured out whom I am voting for in all of the races, except for one. Unfortunately, the race for city councilor from my neighborhood pits one leftist nut against another even worse leftist nut. I don’t want to vote for either of them, but there isn’t a third choice. The leftist nut has been doing tons of advertisements, and has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood. The even worse leftist nut has done no advertising-I didn’t even know that she existed until tonight. It seems likely that the leftist nut will defeat the even worse leftist nut pretty easily.
Should I vote for the leftist nut in order to rule out the even worse leftist nut? Or should I just refuse to vote for either of them? Remember: there isn’t a third choice. One of them will get in.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
There is another possibility: the leftist nut seems to be far more experienced, well funded, and better connected than the even worse leftist nut. If I vote for the even worse leftist nut, and she wins (not likely), it would be easier for someone else to defeat her next time. Whereas the leftist nut is more likely to become entrenched.
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Write your own name in.
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My suggestion as well
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You can either abstain on that part of the ballot, or write-in; it won’t void your other choices, and will ease your conscience….I do it, occasionally, myself….Godspeed, JaC! 🐼
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Thanks, guys 🙂
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Therein lies the problem, and we face a similar situation where I live. The ones who are well funded tend to get elected. They want to turn this area of Florida into Palm Beach. We don’t have the beach, we’re not rich, and the majority who live in this area just want to have a country life instead of a city life. Yet people continue to vote them in on “name recognition.”
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Thank you, everyone 🙂
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I have been in this position before – State Supreme Court where the candidates were all the a**holes who dragged our entire state through the Gore-Bush nightmare because they refused to follow the law of “Equal Protection.”
I didn’t vote in this race but I did warn everyone I knew who these individuals were and what they had done.
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P.S. Jax: It sounds like a passive approach to political ne’er-do-wells, but sometimes if you can affect low voter turn-out, that sends a message!
I will add that it is becoming extremely difficult to maintain one’s own personal responsibilities let alone those of the elected. There never seems to be a moment of peace…
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I know! That is how the bad guys want it 😦
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