[Oe List ...] Our Future

[Don Bushman]

Just yesterday in the grocery store parking lot signed a petition to vote
in Colorado to use ranked voting.



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On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 11:10 AM Wesson Gaige via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> It does not need to be a binary choice.  Support is needed to get us
> beyond the FPTP mentality and change the SYSTEM.  This group should
> understand it is changing the SYSTEM that affects change.  It’s one of the
> things I learned from my association with it.  Get out of world made by the
> current system.  I’m voting for Jill Stein.  Join me.  Don’t stay stuck.
> Support change.
>
> Wesson Gaige, Secretary
> Green Party of Texas
> Cell - 214 906-2909
> wesgaige <wesgaige at txgreens.org>@txgreens.org <cochair at txgreens.org>
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>
> Prevent Future War Crimes
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>
> Eco-socialism is a vital part of being Green.  But, it is not the whole of
> being Green.
>
> On Jul 21, 2024, at 10:30, Bill Schlesinger via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> In a binary choice world – I agree.  I find former President Trump a
> charlatan and – more dangerous – a successfully scapegoating demagogue.
> However, I am painfully aware that the world is more than binary, and that
> avoiding a second term for Trump is a minimal step in a maximal world.
>
> Bill
>
> *From:* Randy Williams <randycw1938 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 21, 2024 9:19 AM
> *To:* William Schlesinger <w.schlesinger at pvida.net>
> *Cc:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>; Molly Shaw <
> mollyshaw54 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Our Future
>
> Bill,
> That may be true. And I’m as displeased with Biden’s role in Gaza and
> Bush’s invasion of Iraq, along with things Clinton, Obama and most other
> U.S. presidents have done. But on November 5 we will have to make a choice.
> And to suggest that there is some equivalence between Trump and ANY other
> American president, Nixon included, if indeed that’s what Dharma was doing,
> is a step way too far for me. In my opinion, Trump is the most morally
> bankrupt character to ever have walked across the stage of American
> history, bar none.
> Randy
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2024, at 11:04 AM, William Schlesinger <w.schlesinger at pvida.net>
> wrote:
>
> 
> I speak only for myself. What i hear, is an understanding that this is not
> a choice between Good and Evil, right and wrong, but part of a complex
> historical and political process that has done great damage to the world
> even as it has done some good things for the world.
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024, 8:59 AM Randy Williams via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> Dharma,
> I’m not sure I’m getting your point. Please explain.
> Randy
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2024, at 9:35 AM, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> 
> A president who has made the US complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
> – 38,000 and more killed in the last few months. A president who invaded a
> sovereign nation to eliminate weapons of mass destruction but turned it
> into a festering sore of terrorism. And many other presidents who led the
> US in some of the greatest crimes that a nation can commit. Compare Trump
> to those men. Then imagine  what the US will continue to do if the July 13
> th bullet had found its mark and saved the day for Biden.
>
>
>
> Wesson Gaige, Secretary
> Green Party of Texas
> Cell - 214 906-2909
> wesgaige <wesgaige at txgreens.org>@txgreens.org <cochair at txgreens.org>
> He/Him/His
>
> Prevent Future War Crimes
> Prosecute War Criminals
>
> Eco-socialism is a vital part of being Green.  But, it is not the whole of
> being Green.
>
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