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Off the Wagon
Author: TriSec    Date: 12/19/2009 13:46:21

Good Morning.

Those of you that followed this space regularly know that for a number of years, we ran a Saturday blog highlighting third-party politics and issues in these United States.

During the 2008 primary season, I went down to my City Hall one April day and changed my registration from "U" (unenrolled) to "D"...specifically to vote for Mr. Obama in the general election.

With much relief and joy, I stood on the mall with 2 million of my closest friends, and watched and made sure George and Laura left Washington safely.

Well....here we are almost a year later. The next opportunity I have, I'm going back to city hall to change my registration back to "U". I let my membership in the Libertarian Party lapse over the past year...and I don't know if I'm going back or not. (The Bob Barr fiasco was just too painful; the Libertarians are now just as fractious and infighting as the Republicans...and Democrats...seem to be.)

Teabagging isn't an option; they're being pitched as a Libertarian base, but they're so far from the plane of reality that it's frightening.

So where does that leave me? I really don't know. I'm not going to not vote, but for a number of years in the late 80s and early 90s, I made the effort to go and turn in a blank ballot.

Democrat or Republican; it doesn't matter to me anymore. They're both the same, and neither one represents my interests. Perhaps I'll join the anti-incumbent movement. I have changed my mind on term limits in recent years. I used to think that elections were term limits, but especially in this state, and seeing how many offices weren't even challenged in the last municipal election cycle, it's time for new blood. You know I'll never vote for John Kerry again. Much as I loved him, I hadn't actually cast a vote for Senator Kennedy since about 1990 (see blank ballot, above).

This whole healthcare debacle has really and truly soured me on the Democrats. What leadership? What reform? All we did was cave in to Joe Lieberman and the Insurance industry. National healthcare reform is a joke and a lie; take a look at what RomneyCare did for Massachusetts, and extrapolate it to a national level. That's what this "reform" is.

I'm tired of hearing about this mysterious bipartisanship that Mr. Obama seems to want to return to. Republicans aren't the answer; they don't want to work togther, and all they are interested in is opposing the Democrats on all counts. In a word, Fuck Them. And with our Democratic leadership showing slightly less spine than that octopus playing with the coconuts this past week, Fuck Them too. From the Oval Office on down.

I'm very sorry, folks. That's where I am this week.

And so with that, for now, until I can think of something better to replace this with, Libertarian Saturday will return in this space soon, although I'll likely rename it to Third Party Saturday.

There's more out there than D and R, Left and Right, and many of them have good ideas. If we truly believe and want change, it's going to have to come from us. The past few weeks with Afghanistan and Healthcare have clearly demonstrated far beyond anything I can write or say here that the United States government is desperately broken, and no audacity of any hope can change what's going on inside the beltway.
 

4 comments (Latest Comment: 12/20/2009 05:27:03 by livingonli)
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