I'm the fuel that fires the engine of Failure
So, the Democrats in my very blue state put up a depressing, entitled, out-of-touch candidate for our vacant senate seat and she lost. The only reason I voted for her was because she wasn't a Republican. Supporting someone you don't even slightly like is psychologically draining.
At this point, I would vote for a Democratic party (or a Republican party!) with the exact same fiscal policy as the current Republicans if they actually made a principled, moral stand on equal protection and civil rights, habeas corpus/due process, and reproductive rights. Those don't cost anything[1].
Maybe they should be solved before the stuff that does cost billions of dollars. As it is my choice is weak, almost grudging support for those rights from people who want to hand the economy over to the government, and disgusting, immoral, vehement opposition to them from people who want to hand the economy over to wealthy corporations.
Neither side is doing anything effective to keep us free, or to keep the market free. Each side says or implies that this is a Christian nation, which it explicitly isn't, while failing to do what's right. Sometimes I want to give up and stop voting.
| [1] | Conversely, of course, it doesn't cost anything to take people's rights away, or prevent them from getting rights in the first place; I think this is why anti-gay-marriage ballot measures have been more successful in the current recession. Some people get their kicks from the suffering of others. |
