Quote of the Day

The only reason I am wasting my precious time symbolically voting at the risk of appearing as if to validate another winner-FAKE-all election like a dumb chump is to say “Fuck the winner” with a ballot cast for my friend, Seth Kuhl-Stennes for Minnesota Secretary of State, the Green Party candidate. He and the Libertarian candidate were again unsurprisingly not invited to participate in the theater of yet another undemocratic debate because only Democrats and Republicans have allowed themselves on the front and back of the bus. Team Blue and Team Red may not be exactly the same, but they do both unanimously agree with bipartisan collusion on the only issue that doesn’t matter: A Dysfunctional Two-Party System.

If your team doesn’t support Proportional Representation for the MN House of Representatives then they support Disproportionate Representation, the root cause of a doomed Republic. Because elections are the pillar of representative government and if your donkey or elephant mascot is willing to compromise democratic integrity at the first sign of real competition by a third party independent diagnosis then those two parties have agreed to enable each other’s failures and bipolar disorder just for a symbolic, temporary victory at the cost of every disenfranchised taxpayer who deserves so much more than this fucking played out bullshit. End of rant. Schuler out. 🎤⚡️

– Andy Thomas Schuler
via social media
October 10, 2026

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Butch Ware on Why Third Parties Are Crucial
• Third Parties and the Historical Record
• Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy
• Campaigning With the Green Party of Minnesota
• With the Green Party at Twin Cities Pride
• MPR’s Major (But Unsurprising) Failure
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• An Epic Takedown of the Liberal Tactic of Blaming and Shaming Leftists
• How the Green Party Gained Power in the U.K.
• “Green Wave 2026 is Global”
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• Something to Think About – December 8, 2024
• Jill Stein on the Importance of the Green Party
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• Building Solidarity on the Left
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• Politics 101
• When Democrats Undermine Democracy
• Something to Think About – August 15, 2024
• “Americans Deserve Choices”: Jill Stein on Breaking Points – 4/30/24
• Nick Cruse: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is the Privileged Position”
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem” (2020)
• “The Next Step Is a Green Step”: Cornel West Endorses Jill Stein (2016)
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is a “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Hope Over Fear: Voting Green