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Sayonara Hitori • Four Horsemen theory (c)

There is a post going around that is very annoying and troubling to me because it contains false information about the American political system that could end up working against Bernie Sanders. So I wanted to clear some things up.

Donald Trump is NOT winning.  There is no “winning” at this stage.  There have not been any elections!  At this point, the polls are done basically on name recognition.  That’s how Deez Nuts ended up getting polled at 9% in my lovely home state of North Carolina, because people recognized “Deez Nuts” when asked.  But literally there are no elections for Donald Trump to have won.  That post says he’s ahead with votes… but there aren’t any votes for him to be ahead with.  The first Republican primary in in February.  At that point, we will have votes.  Now, we do not.

I want to reiterate, the polls mean NOTHING right now.  Literally Deez Nuts y’all.  Deez Nuts.  Deez Nuts is not a candidate that people would vote for… Deez Nuts is a candidate that made people laugh when asked. These are the current polls and their questions.  http://www.pollingreport.com/wh16rep.htm

These polls are about the Republican nomination.  I’m going to explain how the American political system works for a second here… See… We have two major parties, though the small parties have to do this same process too… but it’s bigger for the two major parties.  So candidates run for the nomination… because that party can only nominate one person for president even though many within that party want to run.  So before the election is to take place, each party has a “primary” election… where they vote for whoever will represent that party.  Once someone wins the primary elections, that person is the presidential candidate for that party and will run against the other presidential candidates for the actual presidency in November of the election year (I word it that way because that’s 2016, and some people seem to think it’s this November).  So currently, Donald Trump is running against other Republican candidates (honestly, they’re all horrible and the problem we’ve run into this year is that they don’t have a good front runner because their whole party is so split and divided about everything that they have no cohesive purpose, just as they haven’t for the past 8 years other than “keep Obama from doing anything” but they can’t run on that now because Obama doesn’t matter so they’re all just floundering) to become the person who runs against whoever wins the Democratic nomination for president in November 2016.  He is NOT currently running for president.

In some states, you must be a registered member of that political party to vote in the primaries.  Which means you must be a registered Republican to vote against Trump in the primaries.  In some states, you can be unaffiliated or independent and vote for ONE primary, not more.  Regardless, you cannot vote against Trump in the Republican primaries and for Sanders in the Democratic primaries!!!!!!  I have bolded this because it is SUPER important and people NEED to understand.  If Trump wins the nomination, it is beyond unlikely he would win the presidency.  If he wins the nomination, that would essentially give the Democrats the presidency because enough of the public is disgusted that that would never happen.  Sanders is not a shoe in though!  With Trump winning the nomination, no matter what Democratic candidate… they’d be a shoe in.  But we need to be fighting for Sanders to have the Democratic nomination!  If we don’t vote for Sanders in the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton, we don’t get to vote for Sanders for president!  He’s come so much farther than anyone thought he would.  These are the current Democratic polls http://www.pollingreport.com/wh16dem.htm  We REALLY need to help Bernie.  

Encouraging people to vote AGAINST Trump in the Republican primaries PREVENTS people from voting FOR Sanders in the Democratic primaries.  

1. You’re being deliberately horrible to other people. Stop.

2. If you are a parent, you probably need a couple of bedrooms so you and your children have a place to sleep. Or maybe you aren’t a parent, you’re living with a partner or a friend or a relative who is unable to work. Same thing, you need space to sleep and call your own. Not cramming everyone into one bedroom or making someone take the couch every night isn’t really a luxury.

3. The whole idea of the minimum wage when it was first implemented was that it would be enough to support a family on one person’s wages. Food, shelter, medicine, et cetera. And now, one person’s wages can’t even cover housing for the family *anywhere in the country* let alone food or medicine or anything else.

This isn’t trivial — this means tons of people are homeless and hungry and sick. This means that they labor as long and as hard (or usually longer and harder) as everyone else and they still can’t afford a warm place for their family to sleep.

I don’t think it is at all a stretch to say that people working for minimum wage are being robbed, and that that robbery has real and violent effects on laborers and their loved ones.

A tax on married people. What the superfuck?