Being dumb enough to attribute an opinion to me I never expressed is one thing. Because you think I've been brainwashed by "right wing media".
Not being able to count the number of candidates on the ballot is entirely another matter, in Oregon there are five.
I don't think you've been brainwashed by right wing media. I think you are a contrarian fascinated by unverified minutia and conspiracy theories.
But ok, you think there are credible options in us politics outside the two parties. Innacurate, but ok. That's for me the core problem with US politics, but America loves an optimist, so you're on brand. Occasionally it might be worth voting against the lesser of two evils, tactically, or if you feel like voting against the system itself, you can do that, but we've seen it won't do anything.
And yes, of course you can vote for who you'd like for president in oregon, it won't matter, at all, just as millions of presidential votes don't really matter across most of the US.
I don't love the two choices available by the way. But not because I believe either is a paedo. One is a really mediocre, old super centrist. The problem is the other one is what an american dictator would look like, but without the ambition, vision, intelligence or really any ethos at all. Unfortunately everything he has done, every precedent he's broken, is bad for a democracy that isn't particularly healthy for all sorts of reasons. His instinctive understanding of pageantry normalizes all sorts of future evils, and is an evil in and of itself. His abuse of the office is pointless and petty, but someone else's wouldn't be. I quite honestly can't even remember all the truly repugnant things he's done that are disqualifying, because its been such a dizzying four years, with the last one being the most bewildering of all.
The idea that this is some normal election and it's a tough choice between the lesser of two evils just seems silly to me.
