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12 Steps to Overcoming Addiction to Voting for the "Lesser of 2 Evils"

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Were you opposed to the policies of the Bush regime? Did you used to think critically and attend anti- war protests but now find yourself justifying Barack Obama's wars in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Pakistan? 

Are you unsatisfied with Obama but stay with him out of fear of Mitt Romney becoming president? If you answered yes to more than one of these   questions, you are probably in a self-destructive relationship with the Democratic Party.

If somebody you love is addicted to the "lesser" of two evils, please refer them to the following 12 step program. 

1.  Admit you are in a self-destructive relationship with the Democratic Party.

2.  Remove conflicting bumper stickers from your collection.  "Shut Down Guantanamo" and "Obama 2012" are mutually exclusive.

3.  Understand that kill lists and more unjust war is the wrong kind of change to believe in.

4.  Stop lying to yourself.  The President is not sucking up to the most powerful interests in the world because he loves you.

5.  Cut off all contact with Obama, Holder, Clinton and Pelosi.  No more phone calls or writing letters. They are aware of what they are doing and they just don't care what you think. 

6.  Realize Obama is standing up and fighting.  Unfortunately, he's fighting Afghans, Pakistanis, Yeminis, Somalis"in your name.

7.  No more excuses. The Republicans are not making Democrats increase domestic spying or deport record numbers of Latinos.

8.  Get over your romantic feelings for Democrats and their supposed commitment to poor people.  This election cycle, poverty is not on the agenda.

9.  Make a list of all war crimes committed under Bush. Cross out "Bush" and write in Obama.  Add support for indefinite detention without charge, expanded drone wars, and invasions of two more countries. It's healthy to gag at it.

10.  Come to grips with this: The only thing scarier than the Republican Party ( a party full of climate-change deniers, fundamentalist woman-haters and gay-bashers, election stealers and racists ) is a party who continually moves to the right to accommodate them and gets Americans to go along in that direction.

11. Forgive yourself for being taken in by promises that were not delivered, and for ignoring troubling signs, because you wanted to believe in change.  But remember, insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

12. As a result of these steps, you can now carry the message to those who still suffer from an addiction to the Democratic Party. Nothing is as liberating as resisting an evil when you know it's wrong.

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Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can't Wait, initiated in 2005 to "drive out the Bush regime" by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can't Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the (more...)
 
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