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In reply to the discussion: An open letter to folks like myself who cannot in good conscience vote for Obama [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)Yes, I have a way-cool badge that allows me to tell you to keep your vote. It's round, has a smiley face on it, and says "Free Human" which gives me all the rights and privileges necessary to tell you to keep your vote.
1. I don't give a flying fart in space who your post was addressed to. Since this is not your own personal message board, I'll respond to whatever post I wish for whatever reason suits.
2. Meaningless because of #1.
3. Well, gee whiz, whose else would it be but mine? We'll continue when you're done wringing your hands about the crossing of the "moral bright lines"... there, you finished?
I told you pretty specifically that you, as far as I was concerned, could keep your damn vote. I am affirming your right and responsibility to vote your conscience and if you are as morally conflicted for voting this November for Barack Obama as you claim, then you absolutely should not. You claim that murder, torture, and other moral bright lines have been crossed, so please, explain to me how your moral view permits such equivocation even in the face of mass voter disenfranchisement. I suppose if I conflated murder and torture with Barack Obama's Presidency in the way that you have, I too would have some serious trepidations. But I don't. You apparently do, so please explain what possible rationale could justify your position to vote for such a man?
I'm not deciding your vote is worthy. I'm deciding your opinion, qualms, and the self-important ego trip you are on for posting such a pile of dreck aren't worthy of anything but my scorn. I'm quite sick of these solipsistic, moralistic, "hold-my-nose" tirades full of noise and bombast, signifying nothing, and have been for some time, but I have been tolerant of them up to this point.
I've lost my patience for your type of "support". Your "reasons" for that "support" be damned. You don't live in the real world, or at least you have no concept of what that entails, otherwise you would have already realized that people who act contemptuously of others or condescendingly of others, even if they see their intention as noble, will eventually wear out their welcome with people as you have here with me.
The attention-pleading, the lack of support for the candidate but "I'll hold my nose and do it anyway" backpedal, yes, I've seen it way too damn often before. It is a refrain as old as the hills, as boring and trite as the day is long, and ever so loaded to the gills with "earnest concern"... and in my opinion it doesn't get rebuffed nearly enough around here. Well, here's my little contribution.
Be well.