Argh.

now, for president, senator, congress, etc. who cares? i do treat that as if it is a joke, because that is what it is to me. no one who is an actual human being will make it. but if ralph nader runs, i will go and vote for him. he was kicked off the ballot in texas in 2004 (by the dems, even though they had no shot here), so i couldn’t. and i didn’t even pay attention in 2000. but i would vote for him. i might even cast a primary ballot for dennis kucinich, as he’s by far and away the most decent person running. he’s also polling about 0.5 - 1% right now too. but any of the major candidates? i won’t even go outside that day. i’ll mostly just watch the coverage and hope for “interesting” things to happen.

i have only seen a small clip from “an unreasonable man”, and it was of eric alterman (the 4-eyed goateed weiner from “the nation” magazine) declaring that he hated nader and wanted him to leave the country and “ruin” some other place (no doubt that what’s left of the natives to this land got a good chuckle from that). if he had been in the room, i really would have broken his nose. i can’t stand that motherfucker. in fact i hate liberals more than “conservatives”. conservatives at least will tell you where they stand: militarism, corporate welfare, cops, religious maniacs, and fascist carnage. the liberals are kind of a “hello kitty” version of the same thing. but of course they say that they’re not! if these war barbarians are ever held accountable, i think you have to send the dems to the docket too. there’s an equally long list of crimes with their names on it.

Normon Solomon has a good (in that a hard hitting, depressing cold hard truth way) today on antiwar.com on the perpetual american miliarism. Then i read that article Saoirse linked and i became even more disheartened and enraged. Another reminder that my goddamned tax money is being spent to murder people who have never done anything to me!

AAaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHH!

Now i know this is a matter compared to stopping the carnage, but does it drive anyone else absolutely bat shit crazy that all the intellectual architects of this insane war are, to a man, fucking cowards who would never put themeselves or their fucking families in harms way???

I mean fuck, look at that fucking monster Cheney. That piece of human exrement got 5 deferments from Vietnam, a war he totally endorsed. Then that half-retard Bush skates out of ‘Nam through the National Guard, though he too supported military action there.

Naturally, i would still vehemently oppose& condemn these psychos even if they had put there life on the line in a war before, but the fact that they opted not to “fight for their country” when they had the chance but so thoughtlessly send others to battle to start a bloodbath is just fucking unbelievable. I think these fucks will truly go down as the greatest hypocrytical, cowardly wretches in the history of human leaders.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!

As for Nader, we have a similar argument over here every time we have a local election. At this point I’m pretty sick of being berated for “betraying my community” when I don’t vote for who I’m expected to vote for. It absolutely fills me with despair that people will vociferously attack people trying to provide a genuine alternative… this is not democracy.

In 2004 I worked on the Nader campaign here in Missouri, the heart of the bible belt and a traditionally conservative state. While working at the polls on election night me and and a fellow campaigner were engaging the voting public largely via flyers and pamphlets articulating why Nader was far more experienced and able to challenge what he calls the “corporate duopoly” of the Democratic/Republican parties. At some point we began a discussion with a local registered Democrat who told both of us working (I stress the word “working”—the local Democrats at the polls were sitting on their collective asses) that “…if you ruin Kerry’s chances I’ll personally find out where you live and kick your asses.” The onlooking Democrats seemed amused and went back to doing nothing. We told this shitbag that we had what we thought to be noble intentions for putting our normal lives on hold to help raise awareness about this candidate that Democrats and liberals simply ignored or worse, condemned. After that John Kerry lost the election to George Bush. The liberals drove their new cars back to the suburbs. The occupation of Iraq continued. The rich continued to get richer and the poor were told to keep waiting for a rich Democrat on a white horse (to use Jello Biafra’s apt phrasing).

The End (?)