Mark Bult Design: San Francisco, CA, Established 1988

November 4, 2008 – Will this date go down in infamy?

I’ve been voting for 20 years now, and not one of the presidential candidates I’ve voted for has won the election.

And analysts wonder why Americans don’t vote? I could easily ask myself: Why the hell should I? My candidate never wins.

Perhaps I should vote for McCain today, so my questionable luck will work in Obama’s favor.

But seriously, it’s not about luck, it’s that I usually vote purely on the principles of the party, the platform, and the candidates, and I always align way more closely with the Green Party and various independents than I do with Republicrats.

The one time I decided to vote for a Democrat for president, it was Kerry, and I only did that because I would have been ashamed to be an American if we voted for a second BushCo term. Look where that got me.

People said voting for Nader in 2000 was throwing away my vote. To those people: Fuck you. I threw away my vote when I voted for Kerry in 2004. I didn’t vote my principles, I voted for the lesser of two evils. I voted out of fear.

Now I’m going to do it again. I’m voting for Obama out of fear, not because I love him or his party.

I like Obama a lot more than I liked Kerry, but his Senate voting record leaves me very skeptical. He’s just as much a middle-of-the-road Democrat as Bill Clinton was, perhaps moreso. Don’t get me wrong, I think/hope Obama will be 100 times better than BushCo or McPain, but we’re starting at a pretty low starting point. It’d be truly hard for any Democrat to be worse. And 100 times better than Worst Ever President is still not all that great, in my book.

Please America, don’t make me feel like I threw away my vote again.

Labels: misc. personal, politics

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