hopefully barack won't be so damn gloomy

[rone]

If this doesn't make sense, i suggest reading Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman".  Please note that i found this and did not actually make it.

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[twillis.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's because I just read the Sandman last month, or perhaps it's the alcohol, but this made me laugh like a goon.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

That... is somewhat glorious. (I got only about halfway through Sandman, but it was far enough for that scene. My dead-tree budget is not what it once was.)

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

I laughed my ass off at this one. I LOVE it.

[motis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's funny... but the part that doesn't make sense is why anyone would support either of them.

I listen to what these professional liars say and it's all a lot of pleasant-sounding gobbledygook about hope and change and health care, but then I look at their voting records, their foreign policies, where they get their money, and the total failure of a Democrat-controlled House to do a single goddamn thing to reign in the Neocon horror, and I know we're in for more of the same no matter who wins.

Bush and Cheney deserve impeachment far more than even Nixon did, but the Democrats act like it's just silly to even consider measures that drastic. Why would you hand them a mandate any more eagerly than you would vote for another Neocon pig? McCain, of course, is out of the question for any voter free of Biblical delusions and brain damage... but neither Clinton or Obama are going to be much different. They're all very much corporate whores, and corporate influence on government is the tiny blackened heart and shriveled bitter soul of both the Neocon movement and traditional Fascism.

Real freedom is about having real choices. Understanding that fact intimately is what made Hunter S. Thompson a fucking hero, not his drug and alcohol intake. Right now anyone still mired in the two-Party system is being offered a choice of more Fascism with an elephant sticker on it, or new improved Fascism with a donkey sticker on it. No wonder Dr. Gonzo blew his brains out.

A lot of people trot out the old "I don't want to throw my vote away" when you talk about voting for a third Party, which I just find idiotic. Elections are not horse races, and you don't get a prize for picking the winner. What's more, the Democrats have not earned and are not automatically entitled to your vote just because you have a justifiable and deep-seated hatred for the Neocons (like I do).

It also isn't "throwing away your vote" just because the third-Party candidate you vote for doesn't have much of a chance to win. If enough of us vote for an alternative candidate to pose any kind of threat to the Democrats and/or Republicans, then the established Parties will be forced to adopt some of the planks of the alternative platforms in order to win back the votes.