I must express my gratitude to Hayley Stevens. She lost a primary election for the Michigan senate to Abdul El-Sayed, but promised to endorse him anyway, and then over the weekend, just before the midterm elections, changed her mind and endorsed the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers. It was a breathtaking betrayal. A stunning stab in the back moment for Democrats. She has killed her political career.
And I love her for it.
She has single-handedly destroyed the slogan “vote blue no matter who”, tearing it into tatters, spitting on it, and wiping her ass with it. Establishment Democrats are dismayed — they rely on that knee-jerk party loyalty and hatred of Republicans to coast into re-election without having to actually do anything, and Hayley Stevens just made a vivid demonstration of the fact that you can’t simply trust someone because there’s a “D” after their name. The electorate needs to actually think and assess the merits of their candidate? That’s anathema to the Chuck Schumers and Joe Bidens of the Democratic party!
Thank you for your service, never-to-be-senator Stevens.
Of course, she never intended to blow herself up to advance enlightened democracy. As Jamelle Bouie explains, she was just a self-centered marginal democrat who lost her damn mind.
The midterm elections are tomorrow, and now you must take these candidates seriously (although you should have done that in the primaries) and vote for the best one who will improve your life in the years to come. It’s all weighty serious stuff, and no more of this reflexive “vote blue” nonsense.
Excellent and timely post.
^Says the Trump troll’s support troll.
hey, answered these questions here yet have you troll :
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/11/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-a-senile-fool-run-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-2309411
Also have you apologised for your constant and continuing misgendering of chigau (違う) yet?
I ‘spose the Trump troll will be here to gloat & bask in this soon too.
What is the alternative!!?
If you do not vote Blue, you get Red. Fact.
If you do NOT vote for the NON-fascist party you get the FASCIST one.
That is the USoA’s flawed binary system.
One now expelled Democratic party ex-candidate’s tantrum does NOTHING to change this.
What the actual fuck PZ!? What the actual fuck?
You cannot possibly be serious here can you?
Is this a troll or have you been hacked or something?
I’ve been reading your blog for decades & this is the very worst post I have ever seen from you. It doesn’t sound at all like you.
It can’t be what you truly think can it?
You are better and more rational and have more knowledge and wisdom then the I hope imposter posing as you who wrote this.
Everyone with even half a brain and a minimal understanding of USA politics knows the reality is that
If we want to see any progress in the USA and anything good come out of an election in the USoA it is essential that everyone VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!
The ONLY way. Vote Blue. No matter who.
I hope the real PZ Myers turns up soon and explains what TF happened here. Because I honestly cannot believe you’d write this utterly dangerously false.
THOUGHTFUL VOTERS THINK WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW THEY HAVE TO VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO BECAUSE THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS THE FASCIST TRUMP CULT PARTY.
Anyone thinking otherwise, well, has NOT actually thought about it at all.
If you want to have proper Democracy with multiple parties you need to change the USA-ite system to one that allows preferential or run-off voting or other ways of stopping third party spoilers (eg Nader, Stein, Perot) from spoiling.
Oh and scrap the Electoral College and just go to a true one vote one value system too.
See : https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college_b_12891764
Now where’s the real PZ and what has the imposter who posted this posing as him done with him? I know the real PZ would NEVER think or write this.