Let me lead off with what ticks me off about the Democratic Party.
One, they cave more than Fred Flintstone. The GOP - the ENTIRE GOP - will move in lock step in voting down any Congressional bill that represents a liberal, much less leftist approach to solving society's problems. Democrats will yield against this Sparta-style opposition and hand us BS like an Affordable Care Act with a corporate health insurance purchase mandate AND NO PUBLIC OPTION. You want to know what enrages me the most about Democrats? Their gutlessness. Their well-earned reputation of utter, weak kneed gutlessness. Then there's the drones. Nothing seems to say "summary execution" and "to hell with due process" quite like a remotely-piloted aircraft dropping bombs on innocent children in foreign countries. Democrats, with notable and very loud exceptions, swallow the nonsense that this is all about protecting America. President Obama on one hand mourns the deaths of American kids in a mass shooting, but on the other hand stands by while drones kill 21 kids in a single bombing - overseas, of course. What's worse? I fully expect some Democrats and liberals who read this, to say to themselves, or to me, "better those kids die by bombs than my son who's serving over there!" To that, I say... you are sick in the head. Democrats went along with the bailout of corporations in 2008 and the oppression of Occupy Wall Street in 2011. They turned on Occupy Protesters while the GOP embraced the much more violent Tea Party. Democrats have shifted to the right in many other ways, not the least of examples being their back and forth wavering on Social Security cuts. They've caved on welfare reform, shipping American jobs overseas, tax cuts for the rich, the list just goes on and on and on. What they won't cave on, however, is their intolerance for honest animosity toward the right wing and their refusal to ponder real, necessary changes to stop the onward march of that rough beast called the Plutonomy on its way to Bethlehem.
Leftists have many reasons to stay home or vote for a third party and to say the heck with the Democratic Party. And so do I.
Here's one reason why we shouldn't.
Voting third party helps the other side win. Let the GOP be split up between Repugnant nutjobs and Looneytarian ultra right wingnuts. Remember H Ross Perot? He's the reason why Bill Clinton won over George Bush Sr. The Perot vote would have gone to Bush. Then in 2000 we got hoisted by our own petards when Ralph Nader split the Left vote. But for him Al Gore would have won Florida and 8 years of The Chimp wouldn't have happened. Let this be a lesson for all leftists.
And those who think a GOP-ruled USA would collapse and then lead to a new leftist utopia? Yeah, that's dumb. We're more likely to devolve into a Plutonomy like Mexico. A world like Les Miserables, if we're really lucky.
We need big, revolutionary changes in America. We need a seismic shift to the left in order to avoid becoming an economic dystopia. Voting for a liberal third party ensures GOP victories, there is no way around that, no argument that can refute that, history has spoken. GOP victories are a big step back.
Survival logic dictates that when you're slipping on a cliffside, you don't just let go and fall into the abyss!!! Are we going to obey survival logic or suicide logic?
This is not to say that we should never fight for the CORRECT politician who is better for we the people. The time to fight for LEFTIST politicians is during the primaries. It's during the primaries that we get the Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens of the world, and it is there that we give them a fighting chance to win. But during the general election, there is but two choices for us, and no more: vote for the lesser of two evils, or get the greater of two evils by default. Fantasize as much as you want, during the general election, there is no option #3.
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