No Nancy, because SOME Democrats supported something SOME Republicans did, NOBODY should vote for either party based solely on their party lines. I'm sorry if my post came off as pure Democrat bashing, I really didn't mean for it to sound that way. I actually only brought them into the conversation because it's election day today and I always get frustrated when people talk about voting Democrat as if, by default, what they would do would automatically be in opposition to what the Republicans would do. There are a few politicians in the Democratic party that I really like; Howard Dean (though he's been pretty pointless since the 2004 election ended) and Cynthia McKinney in general. A lot of Iraq vets are running for office on the Democratic ticket in certain places, and that definitely sounds like a good thing. There's also a few people in the Republican party that I like (though Ron Paul is the only one I can think of right now, lol).
My point in bringing up the Democrats is that in general, and especially when voting for federal offices, the Democratic platform and the Republican platform differ on only a few domestic issues like taxes and abortion and social security, while being almost identical on foreign issues. Especially when it comes to war. None of the major Democratic candidates has put forth any kind of plan to get out of Iraq, or even do anything differently there. They speak of such plans, but they do not tell the plans themselves. They say the war is stupid and terrible and wrong, but then they continue to vote for it. And when any kind of rebellion does come up it's usually in an election year. Cynthia McKinney spoke against the Iraq war, but she spoke against it too soon for her fellow Congressional Democrats and so was made the pariah of the party.
The Congressional Democrats may talk about being against the war, but really it's just theater because they don't want their Democratic voters to turn against then. Anyone in Congress (in both parties) claiming they didn't know the Iraq war was BS is clearly lying. Either that or they're just stupid. If everyone else knew it was crap, they should have known too. There's no excuse for anyone in office at the time to have voted for it.
Now that I think of it, "Vote for somebody new" would be a good starting point for undecided voters. As long as they knew not to vote for that party that has a good sounding name but are secretly neo-nazis. (no, not the Republicans, the other ones, lol)
Anyways, my point in bringing all that up was to say that they're not actually an opposition party because Congress is overflowing with comfortable and corrupt career politicians in BOTH parties, that stay in office because of people voting by a candidates party instead of what that candidate actually does. I figured the fact that the Republican party is a ridiculous criminal empire was obvious that it went without saying (although the first paragraph of what I wrote was all about it). But this post is waaaaaaay too long already without me listing out all their horrors.
The corruption is more concentrated in the Republicans, specifically and obviously amongst the Neocons of course, but there are enough bad eggs in the Democratic seats in Congress that I just don't think they should get as many automatic opposition party votes as they do.
Saying "vote third party" was a bit over simplistic, true. There are some good people running for office on the Democratic ticket this election. They are an unfortunately small minority however. Actual anti-war candidates, politicians who do more than give lip service to the idea of peace because they think it will get them votes, are hard to find. Or at least it is on the federal level I should say.
It is only the because of the belief that no third party can ever win an election that keeps people voting for and supporting third parties. And there are a lot more third party candidates out there that I like (some of them even have a chance of winning this year) than there are in the big two. As long as people keep thinking that they have no choice but to pick between only these big too parties, who's leaders are largely bribed (or "funded" as they prefer to call it) by the same huge corporations, nothing is ever going to change. I'm not saying anybody here votes like that, but you all know a lot of people do.
Anyways, I hope this didn't sound too long or rambling, I just always end up writing a lot whenever I write anything.
Everyone should just make sure to vote for something revolutionary if you can find it. Now is not the time for average politics.
People really need to stop describing the situation in Iraq as a mistake brought on by incompetence. This was always the plan from the beginning. A stable Iraq would be one we could not get oil (not to mention all those no-bid contracts for Halliburton and Dyncorp) out of, because a stable Iraq would be one the Iraqis could govern themselves. As long as Iraq is unstable, there's an excuse for us to be in there. If the people in the Bush administration are such "incompetents and wishful-thinkers," and everything in the war is going so wrong for them, then why are they making so much money off of it?
War profiteering does not happen on accident. You don't become a billionaire by slipping on a banana peel.
People also need to stop pretending that the Democrats are going to save them, or that they're even interested in saving them. Corruption, on both the Democrat side and the Republican side, is the name of the game in this election. It's the name of the game in politics everywhere. Who was in charge of Congress when they voted to go to war with Afghanistan? The Democrats. Who was in charge of Congress when they voted to go to war with Iraq? The Democrats. Who was in charge of Congress when they voted to approve the Patriot Act? The Democrats. Until we all start voting in some third party candidates we are all screwed, forever.
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