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Never confuse a hypothetical with an actual.

We're talking about a made-up political party in a made-up situation running for made-up office. The probability fan stretches out past the horizon. When I lived in New Mexico a third of the local offices went to the Greens most of the time and that was just fine. I voted for a lot of them.

But you don't ever say anything about anything but the fucking presidency and I'n'I know that the principle reason Bill Clinton was president is a guy named Ross Perot, and the principle reason George W Bush got elected is a guy named Ralph Nader.

It's astonishing how often, how specifically and in what a concrete way I am forced to hector you for being a political dumbass and what filters through your know-nothing reality distortion field is "I only vote Democrat."