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Edited on Tue Feb-17-04 11:52 PM by JackRiddler
Any support from me it will have to earn. Some bozo will now as usual come along and talk about how teenie-weenie my little vote is, how no one has to convince me, how I'm just a radical not Mr. Nascar Dad or Mmme. Swing Voter, and in the process they will forget that my attitude (if not my views) corresponds to the attitude of the American majority, whatever their politics.
They don't like parties, rightly so given the sorry history, and they say:
"Any support from me it will have to earn."
That's the attitude of your swing voters. Whom Dr. Dean could have captured and Kerry probably won't, except for the reality that Bush is such a horror that he is chasing everyone away anyway.
(Which means, of course that "Anybody" will beat Bush, big deal; unless the Bush mob steals it, which they will try with Anybody regardless of Anybody's bogus "electability." Something so simple to understand, and yet it became increasingly hard for the DU majority to understand it, because they bought into the fear, they fear Bush.)
Any support I give to the Dems is provisional. I care about truth, justice, freedom, solidarity, the real American way, the Bill of Rights, economic reason.
The Democratic Party has only pretended to be about those things.
Dean worked for me because he told some truth. Because you could tell he wasn't part of the script.
For that reason he was clobbered. By this Democratic Party, in a dirty fashion.
To whose fold he will no doubt return, human nature being what it is, and he won't want to appear as a destroyer. But I don't care if he was a "gift" to this party, and that's not what was of value about him.
The party is useless in itself. If only its voters had realized that, long ago, it would have reformed or made way for something better.
Instead we will get the eternal recurrence of
Mr. Soft War/Happy Face on Capitalism vs. Mr. Hard War/Sourpuss Big Money.
So here we are. And you, Anybody, may get my vote. Big deal. In fact, it's pretty much sewed up. Anybody but Bush. Sure. But I ain't lifting a finger for the Party of Nicer Gangsters.
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