Reply #21: I'm voting anti-war. [View All]

[liberalmuse]

If the Dem candidate is one who supports this war and is one who gave Bush carte blanche to fight it, and one who has supported most of Bush's policies, then I don't know that I can vote for him. So let's say we have a Dem candidate who doesn't agree with 10% of what Bush has done in the past 3 years.

If Americans don't care enough to vote against this war, and to vote for change in social policy, about the poor and the elderly, then we deserve Bush and all the bad karma that comes with it. People who don't care enough to prevent their kids from possibly being drafted to fight in an unjust war, or to stop a huge financial burden from being dropped on them and their grandkids are reprehensible.

A pro-war, Bush enabling Dem would have to impose the draft. I thought I could ABB, and maybe I still can if convinced that the Dem candidate would indeed be significantly different from Bush, but that would mean I support the war in some way, and condone the shedding of innocent blood when I absolutely abhorr it. I'd have to be convinced that my vote for the pro-war Dem would result in getting Bush out of office, and it won't.

On edit: I should add that I live in Utah, so ABB would matter. The best I could do is campaign like hell for the Dem candidate.