One Hollywood celebrity had a subtle reminder about Tuesday’s midterm elections for American voters: vote Democrat or die.

In a pair of Tweets Saturday, Golden Globe-nominated actress Ellen Barkin said that the difference between voting Democrat or Republican “will be a matter of life and death.”

Barkin, best known for her starring roles in “The Big Easy,” “Sea of Love,” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” was also featured in the short-lived television series “The New Normal” before embarking on her apparent new career as a leftist political pundit on Twitter.

In her tweets, she also expressed her incomprehension that half the country would vote for the GOP.

I cannot comprehend the upcoming election. How anyone from the working-class, lower- class or any minority of any sort…like elderly…

— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) November 1, 2014

can vote GOP is beyond me. Agreed the other side is not much better, but that difference will be a matter of life and death

— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) November 1, 2014

So, Democrats are “not much better” than Republicans, but they’ll let you live, whereas a vote for GOP is the kiss of death.

Seems legit.

At least some of her followers seemed to think so.

@EllenBarkin As a lesbian living in America, it is evident that I need legal protection from people who cannot see I need legal protection.

— Kathy Roberts (@wrobertswriter) November 1, 2014

Wait … what? Wouldn’t that be true, at least in the abstract, of literally anyone on the planet?

@EllenBarkin the Dems are night and day. Yes we have some bad apples. Blue dogs. But our entire party is not a bunch of shitbags from hell.

— jash (@jashsf) November 1, 2014

There’s a campaign slogan for you. “Vote Democrat! Our entire party is not a bunch of sh*tbags from hell!”

Earlier, Barkin had offered this piece of reasoned political discourse:

Go @WendyDavisTexas go ahead Wendy…your state needs you…especially the assholes who don’t think so.

— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) September 27, 2013

Which in turn gave rise to this trifecta of liberal geniuses:

My mom and I love @EllenBarkin and @Cher and @WendyDavisTexas and our fearless, injustice-fighting American women! Keep hitting them!

— Witty_Witticist (@Witty_Witticist) September 27, 2013

Tip to anti-liberal artist Sabo: Cerberus was said to have had three heads.

Of course, not everyone on Twitter is a Barkin fan, at least when it comes to her political thoughts:

@EllenBarkin The best remedy to incomprehension is to better educate yourself.

— Justin Katz (@JustinKatzRI) November 1, 2014

@EllenBarkin You should have stopped at “I cannot comprehend” That would have been accurate.

— Sean Murphy (@SPMurphy67) November 1, 2014

“lower-class” @EllenBarkin Says the rich white hollyweird hypocrite. #VoteRepublican

— SpatialAwareness(HM) (@die_mich_zwei) November 1, 2014

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…

@XanaduWest @EthanTheVegan Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders is what we need.

— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) November 1, 2014

Okay, Ellen. That’s enough. Run along back to Hollywood now and share your political insights with your friends there.

The adults have voting to do.

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