Reply #65: Politics is like unplugging a toilet...

[Goldstein1984]

Unpleasant but necessary. It hardly matters whether your dealing with a Democrat or Republican turd.

I've simplified my politics:
-Principles (democratic) before party.
-My vote isn't guaranteed, even to the lesser of two turds.
-Come election day, a candidate either delivered or failed to deliver.
-Choosing the lesser of two evils is like choosing the tumor that's killing you slowly over the tumor that's killing you quickly.


And I don't buy into the argument that not voting is lazy and apathetic. The act of withholding a vote is an aggressive, engaged, and purposeful act of defiance against a party that is not representing you.

Consider this scenario involving doing nothing: You're visiting Washington, D.C. and circumstances have you standing next to Dick Cheney as he begins to step in front of a speeding truck. Even though it's completely within your power to save him, you intentionally say and do nothing, and you tell authorities after-the-fact that you were distracted by a flock of beautiful cedar waxwings eating berries in the trees. Now tell me that doing nothing is not doing something.