Not "all democratic voters". I put my own words in my mouth, and do not need or want yours inserted therein, thank you very much. In fact, if you read what I said, the Democratic voters were not the problem at all: it was the non-voters that have to own up to some degree of culpability. Not all of it, not even most of it, but some of it.
Florida was stolen in 2000, make no mistake (subsequent impartial counts proved that Gore won): Ohio and Tennessee smelled pretty fishy as well. In each state, a few more nose-holders for Gore would have made the theft impossible.
The reason the Bushies could pull off their crime (and the subsequent 8-year crime spree) was the closeness of the election: it provided smoke and mirrors, and allowed a few minor crimes by election officials to have a disproportionate impact. A thousand more Gore votes in Florida and we would not have suffered through the Bush Years (that we are still suffering through).
The mathematics of Presidential elections in America in the present day is binary. D or R. If you don't vote D, you help the R.
From my point of view, this sucks: not only am I an independent, I favor the abolition of political parties (as President Washington suggested). But guess what? The way I want the world to work is most definitely not the way the world really works.
At state and local levels, we can push independent candidates, and now and then we get one. But the Presidential race in 2012 will be Romney or Obama. How we vote (or do not vote) will determine which of those two win.
And if we have any fucking integrity at all, we will own our vote and the consequences thereof.
I will vote for Obama in spite of the fucking illegal drone attacks; because Romney would replace the drones with troops, thus killing even more human beings, in more places and for worse reasons.
I will vote for Obama even though he has moved at an arthritic snail's pace on rights for GLBT, immigrant, and female Americans; because Romney would go backwards and take those rights completely away.
I will vote for Obama even though his health care plan is half-assed; because Romney would take even that away, causing more people to die so rich motherfuckers can earn a bigger profit.
But most importantly, I will vote for Obama, because as we all should have fucking well learned in 2000 and 2004, any non-Democratic vote will make it easier for the Repubs to take over the nation completely.
Yep, it sucks. But it has to be done. And I will own the moral consequences of anything I enable Obama to do. Will you own the moral consequences of anything you enable Romney to do?
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