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The parallels between the 1968 and 2024 POTUS elections are manifest, including both Tuesdays falling on 5 Nov, both DNCs holding conventions in Chicago, and both DNC conventions shutting out antiwar Samaritans. We can blame the anti-communist jingoists and the military-industrial complex cronies for that in 1968 and AIPAC Islamophobes in 2024.

Be that as it may, three candidates ran in 1968: Richard Nixon (R), Hubert Humphrey (D), and single-issue segregationist George Wallace (AIP). His racist American Independent Party (AIP) won 9.9m votes and a few Electoral College states.

In 1968, there was no political avenue for antiwar Samaritans with these three candidates, so in good conscience they stayed home.

Similarly, between Dummkopf Trumpf and Kamala Harris, who both supported Israel's pogrom against the Palestinians and POTUS Joe Biden who was labeled "Genocide Joe," there was no political avenue for antiwar Samaritans in 2024, so in good conscience they stayed home.

They didn't waste their time with Green Party candidate Dr Jill Stein who received a meager ~640,000 votes nationwide.

The answer to our binary system is to make AIPAC a single issue third party, like George Wallace did in 1968 with the AIP.

Instead of AIPAC funding candidates from both parties with billions of dollars in dark money, like betting on every horse in every race, they should become a political party unto itself in broad daylight under the powerful antiseptic power of the sun.

This way American voters have three choices on Election Day: Conservative Republicans, Progressive Democrats, or the single-issue America-Israel Party (AIP, like George Wallace's 1968 party).

America first, right Fellow Travelers?

TRUMP THREATENS POLLSTERS AFTER NEW YORK TIMES SURVEY SHOWS SAGGING DISAPPROVAL
"Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually, a criminal offense," he wrote
January 22, 2026
www.politico.com

The problem that birthed this threat?

"President Donald Trump threatened legal consequences for The New York Times after a poll released by the outlet found that independent voters have soured on his leadership at the one-year mark of his second term."

Oh, well ...

When Der Fuehrer says, "Is this the master race?"
We heil, heil right in Der Fuehrer's face
Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace
So we heil, heil right in Der Fuehrer's face

In 2016 a woman won the popular vote over a man in the presidential election.

The numbers on Tuesday 8 Nov 2016:

Dummkopf Trumpf (male): 62,984,828 (46.1%)

Hillary Clinton (female): 65,853,514 (48.2%)

Hillary Clinton was cheated of her victory by the anachronistic Electoral College system which was designed to keep the status quo in power, as well as Russian interference and James Comey's unwise comments about her personal OPSEC procedures.

Michelle Obama: "Don't ask about me running for Prez because you (we) the Electoral College system isn't ready to have a woman President."

BTW: Democrats historically do better at national elections during peacetime.

Woodrow Wilson (1916) and FDR (1940) won their elections before entering the global conflagrations raging around them. After Woodrow Wilson won, he could decide how to steer the country. When he was advised that a British loss would cost American banks billions of dollars because of loans to their banks that the Kaiser would never honor being repaid, Wilson started tilting isolationist America toward the Allies for the sake of those mega-banks and the US economy

In 1944, more Servicemen identified as Democrats than Republicans and the US kept the course with FDR against fascism.

Look at all the presidential elections from 1948 to 2024.

LBJ knew VPOTUS Hubert Humphrey was going to lose weeks before Tuesday 5 Nov 1968 because of the Vietnam War (Source: Phone transcripts released from archives).

LBJ himself didn't want to run again, which he announced on national TV on 31 March 1968, two months after this atrocity was perpetrated on 1 Feb 1968 and the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo went viral:


"Why Bernie Sanders Lost"

fivethirtyeight.com

He couldn't beat Biden, either. This country isn't what we want it to be, it's what it is, and we have to account for that.

I'd love to see Bernie in the WH... or Michelle or AOC or Mamdani or maybe Talarico or a lot of others.

It may end up that Trump's BIG FAIL will change things, let's hope that's the way it goes.

- the DNC chose Hillary over Bernie.

The voters did that.

"The 2016 Democratic primary wasn't rigged by the DNC, and it certainly wasn't rigged against Sanders."

www.vox.com

What the "Rigged Election!" claim did was to make it possible for Trump to use that as vaulting pole and a Defense later.

I would have rather had the more liberal candidate, but Bernie was never going to win a national election... the reason he was even competitive was that he won 80 percent of the Caucuses.

And Hillary is and was a lot more liberal in her policies; she ran towards the middle so as not to lose swing voters, hoping that liberals could read her lips... and the polls.

But as Michelle Obama said recently, "don't ask about me running for Pres because you (we) aren't ready to have a woman President".

original story thread here

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But this one is about trans, so it'll get all the posts from the trans obsessed Trumphumpers.

Thread already up:

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