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Edited on Fri Jun-22-07 11:40 PM by jpgray
Third party voters don't matter because they don't use their vote in a way that affects anything. The best candidate in the world that has no chance of acquiring office is totally useless on a strategic level. Democrats as a party will go on as parties always have, following ambition and consolidation of power. Lefties don't matter too much insofar as their demands are unreasonable in terms of our current money-based campaign system, and they are seen as replaceable with centrists. As lefties abandon the Democratic party, it drifts farther and farther right to net those voters. You are responsible for that drift. The fewer activists within the party that support worker's rights, the less the party cares about such things. Kucinich and many other economic progressives are doing their utmost to change the party. You've abandoned them through over-generalizations and oversimplifications. How pleasing it is to say the whole party is rotten because it doesn't do enough for you, starving the very people within it who can do what you want of influence. No third party figure has that power--to actually do anything but talk. Having no need to back up their talk, they can play the tune you are happy to ineffectually dance to. How easy it is to delude oneself into believing empty talk no one hears is action.
The majority in Congress has already passed a minimum wage increase. Do you have any idea how many millions that makes a better life for? No, we must be big picture, we must have the view that eliminates all small differences that change so many lives. Why? Because we must pretend we are too good for the system, and thus we will never affect that system. How idiotic this line of thinking is.
The point of describing the minutiae of Taft Hartley, etc., is that some third party lefties have focused on issues that ease their hearts when they say all politicians are the same and that abandoning the system is only wise. They may as well go big picture all the way and starve themselves--why attach oneself to slave-produced clothes, or use resources that global slavery of poorer nations produces? If you were truly pure, you would give up your selfish consumption of energy that is only brought about by inequality. Yet instead you preen and pretend to be holier than politicians. How brave of you.
Gore in office would have saved millions. Both domestically and abroad. If you can't see that, continue to be a subculture jerkoff who espouses values in a way that never takes them anywhere. I'd follow Kucinich's example and put those values in places they actually may find purchase, such as Congress.
I hold the same values a lot of third party leftists hold, based on their posts, but the way they go about implementing those values is so intensely stupid on a strategic level it's tempting to write all of them off as self-obsessed preening douchebags. In other words, no different from politicians, but unable to effect any change. You're one of my favorite posters, but this thinking pisses me off to no end.
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