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This probably won't come as any surprise to anyone who knows me well, but I abandoned the Democratic Party almost 15 years ago in favor of the Green Party. I got tired of broken promises, empty values and spineless corporate shills disguised as Democrats. The only party I loathe more than the Democrats are the Republicans. I haven't voted for a non-Green for President in years, and usually have voted Green for U.S. Senate and U.S. House as well.
Now, Green Party candidates are hard to come by in places, so I've come up with some rules for how I vote:
1.) If a Green Party candidate is running, vote Green.
2.) If no Green candiate is available, then look at all other third-party candidates. See if the Libertarian candidate is palatable.
3.) If no third party candidate is available, look at the Republican and Democratic candidates, determine who's less evil, hold my nose, and vote.
This may offend some of my more enthusiastic Democratic friends, but as much as I dislike the Republicans, I don't love the Democrats either. I've opted out of the 2-party system, and have no plans to opt back in. I almost never vote for the lesser of two evils, because I see it as still voting for evil.
So I vote for who appeals to me. Regardless of how likely they are to win, and regardless of how "unstrategic" some Democrats think my vote may be. Democrats have to EARN my vote... and few of them are up to that.
Now, here in Washington State, pro-war Incumbent Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell is up for re-election. I call her pro-war because she doesn't favor use getting out of Iraq immediately. She voted for the Iraq War Resolution H.J.Res. 114 in October 2001, for which she can not be forgiven, and she must be punished. Even if there were no Green candidate available, I could not in good conscience vote for her.
Fortunately, she is up against a Green, Aaron Dixon, who is almost 100% on all of my issues... including pulling out of Iraq immediately.
It's a no-brainer. It's a matter of priciple.
I'm voting for Aaron Dixon.
Now, Green Party candidates are hard to come by in places, so I've come up with some rules for how I vote:
1.) If a Green Party candidate is running, vote Green.
2.) If no Green candiate is available, then look at all other third-party candidates. See if the Libertarian candidate is palatable.
3.) If no third party candidate is available, look at the Republican and Democratic candidates, determine who's less evil, hold my nose, and vote.
This may offend some of my more enthusiastic Democratic friends, but as much as I dislike the Republicans, I don't love the Democrats either. I've opted out of the 2-party system, and have no plans to opt back in. I almost never vote for the lesser of two evils, because I see it as still voting for evil.
So I vote for who appeals to me. Regardless of how likely they are to win, and regardless of how "unstrategic" some Democrats think my vote may be. Democrats have to EARN my vote... and few of them are up to that.
Now, here in Washington State, pro-war Incumbent Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell is up for re-election. I call her pro-war because she doesn't favor use getting out of Iraq immediately. She voted for the Iraq War Resolution H.J.Res. 114 in October 2001, for which she can not be forgiven, and she must be punished. Even if there were no Green candidate available, I could not in good conscience vote for her.
Fortunately, she is up against a Green, Aaron Dixon, who is almost 100% on all of my issues... including pulling out of Iraq immediately.
It's a no-brainer. It's a matter of priciple.
I'm voting for Aaron Dixon.
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One of the last nights of MMF I sat talking with DF. He was sorta depressed. This was right before he vanished into the night with Buck. I asked him what was wrong and it seemed it had to do with you. I told him I wasn't comfortable with talking about you behind your back and he said that he wasn't saying anything ABOUT you. This was something you too had discussed.
He said he was upset about your anger and your constant deep dark black depressions. I told him you'd been that way as long as I had known you. He said that he was depressed that you not only would not stop smoking but that you were smoking more than he had ever seen you smoke. He said he was upset about your gaining weight. I said, "I thought you like big men." He said he did, but that you were going into the danger zone for your health. He said you two had talked about it and your calm reply was that loving someone meant loving them for whoever and whatever they were, and that if you wanted to eat and smoke yourself to death, you had that right and he should respect it.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I told him it was some of that kind of stuff which was one of the reasons I had sorta pulled back. You held on to your anger and your depression like shields against the world and that the heavy black cloud that you almost always had about you effected me deeply. Not only because it hurt to see someone I cared about hurt themselves so much, and also because it was SO thick that I almost always became depressed myself.
When I finally shed Doug from my life, I was determined to turn my life around. It is taking a long time, but one thing I refuse to do is take place in ridiculous arguments. I do not dwell on bad stuff. There is no point. I don't fight fights I can win "for my principles" sake. I realized all that is illusion. All that was my ego needing to win things that couldn't be won, or if I did win them, I wasn't really winning anything at all.
So I look for Sangha. Community that has what I want in my life. Peace and love. If people are always argumentative or mean or hurtful or angry or depressed, if there is NOTHING I can do to help, I just stay away from them now. There are six BILLION people on this planet. That is plenty of people for me to associate with.
I am not skipping your journal you because I am mad at you. On the contrary, I love you. But I won't waste energy
with this silly drivel, excuse me, with what I consider silly drivel. If it makes you "happy" to be confrontative and negative all the time and to eat and smoke yourself into your grave, then do it. I will miss you, but I have to live. I will pray for you and hope that you step out of this. Consider how much time we have both WASTED on this. I didn't even bother reading 90% of your comment to me. It carried a cloud of anger and UGLINESS that I won't dwell in.When you get over this and if you want to talk to me, I will gladly be waiting here for you.
And by the way, one of the things that used to amuse you about me was how I flew off the handle in GREAT drama. I just didn't get mad at someone or something, I had to insult their entire linage. Had I "attacked" you, it would have gone something like this:
I understand what you are saying my friend Listen you DUMB ass Mother Fucker. It is dumb fuck asses like YOU who fucking WASTED their votes and made Bush a reality, all so you could stand on your fucking soap boxes with their dumb shit principals intact. How did I ever want to be your friend to stupid asshole!
I didn't say that because that is NOT how I feel. YOU decided it was an attack.
Namasté: The Divine in Me recognizes the Diving in You.
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Re: We're here. We're Green. We're not Democrats. Get used to it!
From:
Re: We're here. We're Green. We're not Democrats. Get used to it!
I understand what you are saying my friend
Listen you DUMB ass Mother Fucker. It is dumb fuck asses like YOU who fucking WASTED their votes and made Bush a reality, all so you could stand on your fucking soap boxes with their dumb shit principals intact. How did I ever want to be your friend to stupid asshole!I didn't say that because that is NOT how I feel. YOU decided it was an attack.
Namasté: The Divine in Me recognizes the Diving in You.
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Re: We're here. We're Green. We're not Democrats. Get used to it!
I'm not the one who keeps coming on to this jornal entry and going on and on about things that have absolutely nothing to do with Green Party voters!