Reply #103: To late to edit so...... [View All]

[Ardee]

NNadir typed:

"To answer your question here, why should we elect the Democratic nominee, there are many, many obvious answers, many being positive reasons having to do with the fine nominee we have selected. The over-riding and necessarily negative reason for a people who care about reality and actual (as opposed to imaginary) outcomes, the simplest and glaringly obvious reason is this and this alone: George W. Bush. Our country and our planet are dying because of this pig. This is no time to glory in one's own navel. We cannot afford it."


Are you mixing reality with your own opinion? I think that you are indeed. While I'm certain that you might, if you tried, come up with some of those many,many reasons but, alas, you chose not to do so. Instead you elected to to again confuse your own views with some mythic standard of what is real and what is not. Many of us do this every day of course and my reference to your doing so is not meant as a condemnation or an insult, just an observation. What you call impossible others may call not only possible but necesary.......

You join many ,many in referencing Bush as some cartoon figure , some arch villain out of a Marvel comic and that is fine and dandy. It does ,however , make it so much easier to avoid understanding that Bush is not the real problem with this nation, that whoever sleeps in the WH and works in the Oval Office is beholden to the same powers as Georgie boy, perhaps not as willing a tool thereof but a tool nevertheless. Disregarding for a moment that any President needs congress to have an agenda succeed and that a Kerry in that Pennsylvania Avenue address is not the same as a superhero appearing before us all to save the world,sorry.

It seems to me that the real difference between you and a "progressive" or a "liberal" is that you refuse to stretch the bounds of the possible, calling liberalism a lack of reality. One might call liberalism bravery and honesty and your position simple lack of imagination or guts.

I tell you straight out that I am sick unto death of the path we are on here in America, sick to death of the empty promises of all politicians, whether GOP or Democrat, sick to death of a news media that simply reports what is said without fact finding and verification, and I realize that the Editors and Publishers must cater to the advertiser and abandon the truth. I am sick to death of politicians who promise the moon and kneel before the corporate donors waving large checks. I am at the end of my rope with foreign policies that result in the deaths of thousands to further enrich a few old white men.

I am tired of watching my vision of and for America become a nightmare. I am ill at the thought of seniors deciding between cat food and medication, I am trying to end a scenario wherein good hardworking Americans lose their jobs, their health care and their homes because it is more profitable to employ a Bangladeshi than an Iowan. I detest that children are undereducated here that this land of mine seems to care little for its own.

So I will not accept any longer your choice of which corporate stooge to vote for, and I will work, at the local level, within third parties or wherever I must to effect change and , if you have an ounce of clarity and a smidgen of honesty you will join me instead of diminishing me.