Essential services like healthcare, accessible information, food safety, and all the other things that help our citizens stay safe and productive?

This! You have any idea how much people pay for boulders to landscape their yards? A small one about the size of a nightstand can cost 300+.

Can we just put them all in submarines and promise it will be different this time?

You’re right it doesn’t die, but it is suffocated a bit in my experience. When it is not okay to be hateful, when people actually are not comfortable putting their hatred out there, it doesn’t spread as easily.

Is it wrong to call a Nazi a Nazi? No and it should be done regularly.

For 16+ years I’ve been watching the divisions grow. It started with the covert racism of the tea party and birtherism and in 2015 an orange turd slid down an escalator and brought it all out into the open, making it ok to identify people as rapists and murders based on where they are from and the color of their skin.

There has always existed “others” to those who need to have someone to blame or someone to punch down and there always will be. But I liked it better when they weren’t so empowered. “Democracy dies in darkness” but so does hate.

It used to be that not knowing how to spell potato or not wanting to eat broccoli was enough to damage a political reputation. To say that you don’t like the man who divides and insults, funnels tax money to his pockets, attacks women verbally and physically, and threatens the security of our nation and our allies’; but still vote for him is insanity. At this point I can only conclude that his supporters embrace the racism, are willfully ignorant, view him as a useful idiot, or a bit of it all.

End rant. I didn’t want to actually add to the divide, but finding common ground is nearly impossible.

I’m happy to vote for Harris. A person who supports all Americans regardless of how they identify in any way. I am excited to have someone who will fight for equality. Someone who understands that income and wealth disparity is failing lower and middle classes.

Harris is not perfect, but perfect for me won’t be for someone else, so searching for perfect is a losing hand.

I mean I could but I have a nearly limitless supply of rabbits in my yard. Their fur makes great gifts. My plants love the compost I get from everything else. As a bonus the blood compost deters rabbits from eating my cabbage.

Funny thing, I can’t seem to find any type of vegan certification that is concerned with the use of animal byproducts or waste in fertilizer. A few specifically say they do not check fertilizer.

Most of what you said is spot on but you originally quoted about choosing between bad and worse.

I get what you’re saying about the primary system, but even that is broken. Incumbents are almost never primaried. Typically the party will not allow it. There also needs to be consideration of what primarying an incumbent could mean. It’s unlikely any of the challengers would win and in the process they would burn through campaign money and highlight weaknesses in the winner’s record and character that could be used by the opposing party.

We do have a primary, but it may not always give the best candidate. If argue only a portion of people who vote in a general even vote in the primary.