Democrats are not entitled to progressive support and have done precious
little to earn it. Their achievements don't outweigh the significance of
children killed by drones or the one in fifteen black kids who has a parent in
prison. In most European countries, their agenda would comfortably be embraced
by mainstream conservatives. But we're not in Europe, and the viable alternative
is always worse. That's the problem. When Democratic loyalists chide disaffected
progressives with the mantra, "Well, this is the only choice," they apparently
don't realize that this is less an endorsement of Obama than an indictment of an entire system. (Ed's
italics)
In 2008, having learned enough about both John McCain and Barack Obama, I voted for the Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney, because only she represented what I believed in. In her activism since then, such as her participation in one of the flotillas attempting to break the inhumane, illegal, cruel Israeli blockade of Gaza, she has continued to prove, by actions as well as words, that she was well worth supporting.
I refused to throw my vote away on either two Democratic or two Republican Corporate Imperialists and their Congressional cronies who all view people and nature as commodities ripe for exploitation by their Corporate Funders. Deluding myself that one is "preferable" to the other plays right into the blood-soaked, greedy hands of the Ruling Class who will be toasting themselves with expensive champagne no matter which Corporate Imperialists win on election night.
As long as any of them win, the rest of us, and our only planet, all lose.
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