scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

14.9.04

i'm a democrat because i can't be an eco-socialist - the Communist party exists, right there with the Greens and the Libertarians and the rest, but they're irrelevant. because if i have to choose between the lesser of two evils, it still matters - and voting for Nader, even in texas, is not choosing a viable option, it's choosing not to choose. a vote for Nader matters even less than a vote for Kerry in texas. a vote for Nader is a Why No, I'm Not Going to Participate in this System - which would be a nice stand to take if the stakes weren't so high.

because i think that since we can provide a decent life for everyone we should. because i think that being in this country, where we have all this fucking money, we ought to be able to get everyone a place to live and food to eat and maybe even some school or some doctoring when it becomes neccessary. because i think that nobody needs to accumulate the kind of wealth that people are accumulating - nobody needs a dozen cars. (nobody, but nobody, needs a Hummer.) nobody needs multiple jets. nobody needs an estate on every continent or in every major city when there are people in the same zip code that aren't getting by.

because i live close enough to the barrio that i drive through it sometimes. right before i get home just in time for It's Good To Be... on E!. it's dizzying. Or nauseating. Or both.

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scrawled @ 15:29