105 million people stayed home
66 million voted for HRC
63 million voted for Trump
4.5 million voted for Gary Johnson
1.4 million voted for Jill Stein
In no known universe can the smallest number on that list be the “decisive” factor.
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I blame The Party For Socialism And Liberation — 74,402 votes.
wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election
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You need to tell Hillary. ;>)
She’ll call them a “Russian asset” too. Which, of course, is yet another irony. Russia under Putin is far-right. He’s helped far-right parties and candidates all over the world. He became perhaps the richest man in the world because Russia privatized everything public after 1991, and he and his oligarchical buddies made a killing.
Of course, in America, we never had much of a “Commons” to begin with, so our oligarchs have always had private control. But they didn’t have the same Gold Rush opportunities as the Russians after 1991.
Sidenote on my Stein vote. I would have chosen someone well to her left if he or she were on the ballot. The Greens were the only option beyond the duopoly. I do think their platform is a hell of a lot better than the Dems/GOP’s. It’s not close. But they’re not anticapitalists per se. If I had my druthers, that’s who I’d vote for every time.
To me, the root of all our problems stems from an economic system that makes it legal for humans to own the economic output of other humans. I’d limit that to one’s own. You get to own your own output, not anyone else’s. Once the economic entity in question grows beyond that one human, it’s co-ownership or it’s not legal.
A person or party that seeks the complete and wholesale removal and replacement of capitalism with true democratic, radical egalitarian, localized, self-rule will get my full commitment.
Closest thing we have right now to a viable alternative, to me, is the DSA.
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