Not Long Now
So, we're coming up to it now. The battle is still pitched - Kerry has to keep all his existing leads in the electoral college, and pick up Ohio and Florida - and then he wins. It's very doable, let's hope he doesn't screw it up.
I've been thinking quite a bit about two party politics in America, and how fucked up it is that good guys get forced into the margins to make way for the corporate whores who bend over for campaign contributions. It's sad that Bush has managed to make even the push for a more genuinely representative set of choices into a black versus white, 'if you're not for us you're for the terrorists' kind of mindset.
I have a lot of time for Ralph Nader - I think he's a genuinely decent guy and I'd love to see him get a shot at the presidency. I also have a lot of respect for the fact he's fought so hard for a three party system for so long.
But for this election, even if it does mean simply voting for the least objectionable head of the Corporate Oligopoly Party, Bush needs to go. He is deeply dangerous, and a threat to what little stability there is in the world. He is a divisive character who revels in the fact he doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about issues. He's a 'leader' who believes that it's impossible to change course during a war, because that means the terrorists win. He's the kind of guy who will drive America off of a cliff, just because stopping the car and reading a map makes it look as if he isn't sure where he's going. That's fine if he's the only one in the car, but he has 300ish million passengers in his vehicle, and the resulting explosion will brutalise five billion others.
Ralph Nader took a lot of heat in the 2000 election... apparently he's the reason the Democrats lost. Let's forget of course that people voted for the person they thought offered the best direction for the country. It's pretty sad that the primary complaint is that 'people weren't willing to settle for us'. I'd love to see Ralph doing the altruistic thing and stepping aside for Kerry, but if he doesn't (which he won't), I hope to God we don't see a repeat of the demonisation that was so prevalent last election. Give the man a break for having scruples, and at least respect the fact he's fighting the Good Fight for a more representative system.
I've been thinking quite a bit about two party politics in America, and how fucked up it is that good guys get forced into the margins to make way for the corporate whores who bend over for campaign contributions. It's sad that Bush has managed to make even the push for a more genuinely representative set of choices into a black versus white, 'if you're not for us you're for the terrorists' kind of mindset.
I have a lot of time for Ralph Nader - I think he's a genuinely decent guy and I'd love to see him get a shot at the presidency. I also have a lot of respect for the fact he's fought so hard for a three party system for so long.
But for this election, even if it does mean simply voting for the least objectionable head of the Corporate Oligopoly Party, Bush needs to go. He is deeply dangerous, and a threat to what little stability there is in the world. He is a divisive character who revels in the fact he doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about issues. He's a 'leader' who believes that it's impossible to change course during a war, because that means the terrorists win. He's the kind of guy who will drive America off of a cliff, just because stopping the car and reading a map makes it look as if he isn't sure where he's going. That's fine if he's the only one in the car, but he has 300ish million passengers in his vehicle, and the resulting explosion will brutalise five billion others.
Ralph Nader took a lot of heat in the 2000 election... apparently he's the reason the Democrats lost. Let's forget of course that people voted for the person they thought offered the best direction for the country. It's pretty sad that the primary complaint is that 'people weren't willing to settle for us'. I'd love to see Ralph doing the altruistic thing and stepping aside for Kerry, but if he doesn't (which he won't), I hope to God we don't see a repeat of the demonisation that was so prevalent last election. Give the man a break for having scruples, and at least respect the fact he's fighting the Good Fight for a more representative system.
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