Dems’ suit to remove the Green Party is impeding democracy
The Democratic Party has positioned itself as the paragon and last bastion of democracy in the face of almost certain fascism, a fear-mongering tactic used to try to win the presidential platform again by threatening that the “orange man” would enact the now-infamous Project 2025. I am writing today because, despite the Democratic Party’s pearl-clutching, it is no champion of democracy.
The party has just successfully sued to remove another major third party from the Nevada ballot. This move directly impedes democracy and the right of Nevadans to vote for whom they choose. So much for being the “saviors of democracy.”
What’s even more disturbing about this incident is that the party sued not once, but twice. After a lower court ruled in favor of the Green Party, the Democratic Party changed its lawsuit, citing a different reason: a supposedly incorrect form issued by the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office. This form, however, was the same one recommended by the Secretary of State’s Office in its guide for minor parties. This appears to be an egregious error by the Secretary of State’s Office and a failure on the part of Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar. Yet there has been minimal news coverage of the incident, which has been dismissed as a mere oversight, an oopsie-daisy.
It is reprehensible that an elected body responsible for ensuring voting rights, regulation and access in Nevada could so blatantly and maliciously provide the wrong forms to a minor party and then refuse to offer any remedial action or way to rectify the situation. The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office, the Nevada Supreme Court, and the Nevada Democratic Party have demonstrated that the status quo persists.
The “Hope and Change” and “We Go High” rhetoric that I have accepted throughout my voting life has proven to be a charade and a blatant lie. There is no “Hope and Change” coming from the Democratic Party, now or in the future. With my vote effectively taken away, under no illusions that Jill Stein could win, I cannot stomach voting for a party that would disenfranchise 15,000 Nevada voters.
Tucker Monticelli , Reno
I’m ready for President Harris
Demented 78-year-old delusional dingbat Donald Trump was utterly demolished in what will now be his one and only disastrous presidential debate against the soon-to-be-first Democratic president from the state of California, ass-kicker Kamala Harris. Trump is terrified at the thought of another debate after having catastrophically imploded hilariously.
It just goes to show what happens when a racist Republican reprobate like deranged Donald “eating dogs and cats” Trump totally underestimates their political opponent simply because she happens to be a woman of color. And speaking of color, conservative treasonous coward Trump has absolutely ruined the color orange for me and millions of Americans. Halloween will never be the same again. However, Election Day is going to be fantastic (unless you’re a fascist).
And speaking of Halloween, perhaps someday soon I’ll finish writing the screenplay for my often easily offended Jewish bosses in Hollywood titled The Color Orange about a morbidly obese, sweaty liar from South Florida by way of Queens, N.Y., named Don the Con who is already well on his way to Club Fed, after having killed more than 1 million Americans with his COVID-19 pandemicide.
It’s going to be the Big House for diabolical Donald, not the White House— that’s where the 47th President of the United States Kamala Harris will be residing for the next eight years.
Jake Pickering, Arcata, Calif.