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While
talking politics with someone the other
day, I was chastised for voting for Ralph
Nader instead of Al Gore. It was implied
that all the big-eared, Yale-frat-boy, orangutan-style
foreign policy we now find ourselves wallowing
in was somehow all my fault.
Let's
set the record straight. If you voted for
Gore, you're either a pussy-mouthed, capitulating
faggot, or violently misinformed. Or both--they
seem to hold hands quite a bit.
The
Democratic Party doesn't act any differently
than the Republican Party. They both do
their best to enrich our bosses instead
of us; both support the WTO, GATT, and oil-based
power. They both have it in for the art,
music, and films we love. Gore's wife was
responsible for the attempted pogrom of
fringe-rock in the mid-eighties through
her organization, the Parents Music Resource
Center, in Senate hearings presided over
by Gore himself. Gore's running mate Joseph
Lieberman has gone on record praising Pat
Robertson and has came out in favor of banning
such wildly pornographic bands as The Black
Crowes and Blues Traveler. While in the
Senate, he even attempted to enforce a legally
binding ratings system on all music.
Vote
for those scumbags? What, am I an idiot?
Has our democracy sunk to such depths that
if I refuse to vote for someone whose politics
make me puke, I'm "selling out our country?"
Nonsense.
Need
more proof? Think about this: Gore believes
that it's perfectly reasonable to lock people
up for growing pot, and yet he used to smoke
pot on a regular basis. Who's the sellout?
Why would I vote for someone who wants to
send my friends to jail for something as
innocuous as growing hemp? That would be
a ridiculous breach of my ethics.
Gore
is a born-again Christian. Uhh, doesn't
that mean he's insane? Doesn't that mean
that if he supports gay rights as much as
everyone thinks he does, he's either a hypocrite
or a liar? Which one is it? I don't feel
comfortable voting for anyone
who
claims to be born-again. That's like saying
you can fly. Would you vote for someone
if they told you they could fly, or they
had magical roller-skates that let them
shoot "power beams" from their eyes? Uh,
no.
Nader,
on the other hand, supports the legalization
of drugs, the abolition of the WTO, and
national health care. Nader has proven
over the last forty-odd years that, unlike
Gore, he cannot be corrupted. Nader lives
in a two-bedroom apartment, lives on a
$25,000-a-year salary, and donates his
speaking fees to charity. He has spent
his entire life campaigning for people
like me. Poor people.
Nader
reminds me of a penitent kung-fu monk
who wanders the countryside spreading
justice like Kwai Chang Caine. He stands
up for the little people and for giving
food and money to broken-down, overworked
families. He doesn't start fights, he
just finishes them.
People
claim that Gore is an environmentalist.
Oh, is that why he supports the WTO and
refuses to even consider growing hemp
for fiber and fuel? That's why he quietly
did away with "dolphin-safe" tuna laws?
That's why he shills for Monsanto? Tell
me another story, Grandpa.
People
will tell you that Nader cost Gore the
election. In a post election interview,
Nader answered this allegation by saying,
"No, Gore cost himself the election."
Didn't it ever occur to anyone that perhaps
Gore lost the election because he's a
piece of shit? Because people had problems
with his voting record? Maybe they weren't
willing to give Lieberman the power to
outlaw and blacklist their favorite records?
I'd rather believe that, and put my faith
in democracy, than believe that Nader
brainwashed ten million people.
I
didn't vote for Gore or Bush because they
both represent everything I hate about
the current state of government: money,
greed, and the wholesale slaughter of
our land and free culture. I resent even
paying taxes to the government. Why would
I use the only tool of change I have,
my one vote, to help perpetuate it?
The
answer is: I won't. I'll never vote for
a Democrat again. I'll vote Green, Libertarian,
or Socialist. My conscience is clear.
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