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ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-10 02:16 PM
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138. If elections could change anything, they'd make them illegal...
Edited on Sun Dec-05-10 02:21 PM by ProudDad
After wasting over 30 years of my life trying to believe that change was possible at the ballot box and being constantly disappointed, I gave up after '94 ... when Clinton completely caved...

Since then my only electoral involvement (and it's been considerable -- including active involvement with friends who were working for Obama's election in '08 with my body, mind and art) has been as an organizing and networking tool...

I have not expected ANYTHING from the bogus electoral process since Clinton's ultimate cave-in to the pro-corporate, pro-war forces...

ReLOCALize, rebuild LOCAL communities for resilience and survival if you can but don't expect anything good to come from the corporate-funded "governments"...
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