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I voted for Nader, simply to register my protest to the "Hope!" and "Change!" nonsense, and the concern of what could happen in the name of that monument to ambiguity and potential for evasion.
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Most others of us voted for Obama, their sincere proposition being that it was America's best hope of terminating the treachery both foreign and domestic of the Bushco variety Republicans.
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Now many of us have lost any Hope! for practical, beneficial, indeed for moral Change! (The punctuation is our President's.)
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As a more skilled writer puts it --
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"...we are witnessing the concretization of processes of corporate takeover that have been in the works for decades. The purveyors of these processes know no partisan bounds or party lines. They exert control over the money system, the media, the military machine, and more. They've standardized the schools, busted up the unions, controlled access to information, exploded the prison population, effectively cornered the market on food and energy, fomented perpetual warfare, bought the politicians, and toxified the environment." (Randall Amster: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/05)
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The icing on the cake of the privatization and corporatism of America is the sham of the current national healthcare bill, which is actually a federal mandate to force citizen payments into behemoth private profit-churning insurance interests or to suffer the penalties of the law.
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What are you going to do for us next, Dems? Force individual citizens to buy mandatory pollution control licenses from the power companies? Purchase protection from terrorism policies from Blackwater?
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The Democrat apparatchiks would be wise to comprehend that -- although numbers of disillusioned non-Republicans may now appear comparatively small in the polls -- our forces are increasing geometrically, and that by 2012 we may very well constitute a major opposition against Republicans, but we will NOT direct that opposition in favor of Democrats of the ilk we now witness dancing to the beat of private business interests.
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Typical third-party futility? The Dems persevere in that persuasion at their own peril.
