Lincoln Project is out with another gem. People in this country are not taking the No Labels threat seriously. Nobody who understands politics is saying they can win. They can’t. Moreover, they don’t have to, to wreck democracy as we know it and that is the problem. No Labels is not some do gooder movement, they are a dark money group which exists for the sole purpose of leeching away enough votes from Joe Biden to where Trump can squeak back into power. And then America is toast.
If it wasn't obvious before, it's obvious now – Joe Manchin is aligning himself with the dark money group No Labels in order to hurt President Biden's re-election bid and benefit Trumppic.twitter.com/aTTzVOaNvW https://t.co/3U1JDusCFA
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 12, 2023
Joe Manchin is not what worries me. Manchin has huffed and puffed before. When all is said and done he’ll probably run for reelection. What worries me is this delusion, whether it’s Ralph Nader, the Green Party, it matters not who, that some alternative third party does any good in the world. Historically, all those groups ever do is bleed votes away from the Democrat.
I never thought that a lone senator, one from a tiny, impoverished state like West Virginia, no less, could be the catalyst for destroying democracy, but there’s a possibility that just that could happen.
No Labels claims they’ll have a candidate by Super Tuesday. And they just might. All it takes is a margin of 1% or 2% to upset the apple cart. Look at 2016. Look at 77,000 votes in three states.
This is the stuff of nightmares. Please, everybody, start taking the threat of No Labels seriously and keep them off the ballot in your individual state. That’s the only way we can save democracy.
Immediate reaction: Erk! And the article’s cover pix – a fitting mélange of offal and fruit fly fodder!
The image captures nicely the essence of what Trump is.
When I was a kid, politicians would put giant speakers on top of a car and ride around neighborhoods blasting their message. Why can’t we do that now? Call them the ‘Truth and Justice Free Speech Mobile’. Use them in all the states in this country and dare any ass hat to violate our rights to free speech. Think about it. Turn their age old trope that we are suppressing free speech, that is fascist lies on it’s head. Just like we did Dark Brandon.
To be honest, people should be able to vote for whoever they want to. I love the monty python silly party skits.
Yep, pretty much sums up what u.s. polling firms do today. lmao