LTTE/childish tantrum from a Naderite/Indymedia/ANSWER-type lefty [View All]

[drumwolf]

I read this LTTE in this week's issue of the Bay Guardian, a San Francisco alternative weekly. Read it and laugh at this guy.

The tone and choice of words of his letter is quite appropriate -- it's every bit as childish as his actual politics. When I read the last few sentences, I can almost actually see the guy stamping his feet and hear him petulantly shrieking in between each word.

What progressives?

The nearer that we approach the 2004 election, the more that I feel abandoned by the area that likes to tout itself as the most progressive in the country. Walking out of Fahrenheit 9/11 to vitriolic old white men suggesting that we all need to vote Democrat, reading opinion pieces in the Bay Guardian that slam the most successful third-party candidate in decades for daring to run again, and suffering through dinner parties where everyone feels reaffirmed by everyone else's affirmation to vote Bush out of office have convinced me that my species is becoming endangered. Allow me to express what has now become heresy: I will not vote for Kerry. How about an addendum: I would not vote for Kerry if my state swung the election. And a grand finale: I will never vote Democrat for as long as I live.

Corey Wade
Berkeley

http://www.sfbg.com/38/43/x_talkback.html (you'll have to scroll down -- it's the second-to-last entry)