It’s My Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To
Republican?
Democrat?
C’mon, now. Don’t be silly. Life’s too short. The U.S.A. is too important. The future of the planet is too important!
Exaggeration? Look around. Neither backroom behemoth can produce a common sense agenda for our country, let alone the world, and to one extent or another, a good portion of the world continues to look to us to for guidance in this new century.
I know how you feel. It’s always been Democrats and Republicans. It’s like bread and butter; love and marriage; Batman and Robin. But these guys aren’t caped crusaders. They’re mostly just men in expensive suits. Well-draped masqueraders, is more like it.
Anyway, there are options if you’ve had it up passed here (my hand is raised way up), and are considering joining The NEXT Revolution.
You may choose to blindly select the NON-Republican or NON-Democrat on your ballot, and I continue to think that “blind� vote is better than going for the D’s and R’s you can see. Or you can investigate about independent and third party candidates in advance.
Here are a few places you might like to visit:
http://www.thirdpartywatch.com/
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/othervoices/story/5926436p-5230086c.html
http://www.ballot-access.org/winger/iba.html
http://www.ballot-access.org/
Some may seen a bit dry, but the info is worth the effort, and besides, a little dry is a nice change from the deluge of sludge the two main parties are offering up.
Speaking of up… Up the Revolution!
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pm
You and your revolution… =)
I have to wait until these elections are over. Being so close to D.C. I am seeing polical ads every other commercial. Maryland, Virginia… I can’t take it anymore. They aren’t even good ads, they are pathetic ones.
Once this junk storm settles I will come back here with some actual opinions.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:15 am
Oh, but David… David…
It’s OUR revolution!! No, it’s YOURS, really! I am merely holding the door open for you to pass!
Don’t falter! Keep your head held high (duck when you must!), and help lead your fellow suckers, err, I really do mean voters, into the bright, clear independent light of a genuine NEW MORNING IN AMERICA!!
You are the future, David. Grab the reins with both hands and ride that puppy for all you’re worth!!
David, don’t think of them as ads. Think of them as octopus ink, behind which the many tentacled demons of the deep hide their true intentions. Shield your eyes, hold your breath, bite your lip, spark up a blunt…
Do whatever it takes, but to get to those polls!!
Your country is counting on you!!*
Your country must start somewhere. :-O
November 4th, 2006 at 10:00 am
All the ink in the world couldn’t hide their intentions and goals.
I certainly hope my country isn’t counting one me. That is not speaking well of how things will turn out for us in the future, near or far.
Come to think of it… why is this on MY shoulders? Isn’t it the older generations who allowed the government to get all messed up, or more likely, watched it in its already messed up state and didn’t do anthing/enough to stop it?
Why do I need to be the one to fix. Such a heavey burden… =(
November 4th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, David.
On behalf of everyone born before you, and before me, too, I am deeply, heartily sorry, for allowing the representatives of narrow unseen special interests bring the Great American Experiment to its current lowly state.
You sell yourself short, David!
You represent the core of the Great American Triumvirate: Baseball, Hot Dogs, and Apple Pie…
You come first, and you contain no unsavory byproducts (well, OK, so some steroids, maybe), and unnecessary fat!!
I swear I wasn’t asleep at the switch, David. I did, and continue to do my part. But it’s taken half a lifetime (assuming I live to a ridiculously old age
for me to realize my efforts were wasted on a system long-corrupted by its twin avatars of evil, dressed as “freedom of choice;” yes, the Democrats and Republicans offer a never-ending supply of clay pigeons called “the lesser of two evils,”
You need not repeat my mistakes, investing endless hours of mind, body and soul food (from my time down south) in either of the two main political parties.
All I ask is for your vote. Your vote for any and all candidates brave enough to step into the light of scrutiny, cloaked in the lightest of battle armor: independent, third-party, and even no affiliation whatsoever. It is they, David, who choose to bear the burden on our behalf!
The burden you bear is casting your privileged right and duty every couple of years or so. I know you can do it, David! Your intelligence shines through in your writing. Your resolve is evident in the goals you pursue.
The powers that be cannot mask themselves from your perceptive eyes.
Some are born to lead, others have leadership thrust upon them. David, you are both!
Cast off your metaphysical burden, and go out and kick some megapolitical ass!
This reply is brought to you on behalf of America’s Founding Fathers (and Mothers), and they’d have approved this message.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Why Tim… what such long-winded replies you have.
All the better to force me into action? =)
Flattery is not the way to make me follow your path my friend, if I wanted such rhetoric you know where I could more easily turn.
Whereas some are born to lead and others force into doing so, there are also some like me who neglect such roles no matter with what force they are thrown upon us.
I’m sure you will have another rather long reply to counter such an argument.
Do not dissapoint me Tim!
November 5th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Force?
Dear friend, David, you cut me to the quick (and I hate when that happens… seems like you’re always banging THAT finger, and the nail starts growing back all funky and snags onto things, tearing and breaking… then the whole process starts all over again, but I digress) to assume force would be anything but the means to prolong my very existence. Besides, I am essentially a peaceful man.
And hell, David, I know our existence isn’t really riding on the upcoming elections. Not yet, anyway.
But I fear it may eventually come to that. As Martin Luther King once said, “I may not get to go there with you…” Perhaps you may escape those days, too, but then again, perhaps not.
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a flatterer. No, no Eddie Haskel, I prefer to call ‘em as I see ‘em, and if I see more in you than you see in yourself, David, chalk it up to my keenly developed sense of insight (and these wicked new bifocals), rather than a vain attempt to appeal to your vanity.
(I once made an appeal to Vanity, then later to Sheila E, but both refused my pleas-e.)
(Now Sheena Easton was another story entirely, but that’s ancient history and I digress once more.)
As to the matter of your birth, David, take heed: All who are born are – in essence – born to lead. Whether consciously or not, at the point of a blade or by the allure of a glade, each human being follows a chosen path, and consequences inevitably attend in their wake. You are not exempt from leadership, my friend; it is, in fact, your destiny.
Your action, or inaction, if you’d prefer, is nothing more than an antecedent, leading in its way, to the prescribed outcome. Besides, even an object at rest (and let’s be honest, how often do you really, really rest, and I’m not talking about your last foray into oblivion) is ultimately moved. All I’m talking about here is direction.
So, David, the question is not, whether you are, in fact, a leader, but rather, what kind of leader will you choose to be?
Therefore, let me once again gently, without a hint of force, encourage you to accept the mantle of leadership which is your birthright and destiny to assume.
Surely a dedicated Braves fan can be nothing less than a (using “an” in a situation like this always seems so pompous, don’t you think?) heroic herald of positive permutation!
Unlike all but Redbird fans, you don’t even have to wait till next year. Your opportunity awaits anon.
Up the Revolution!
Go Braves!
November 5th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
I must say I enjoy reading your comments that often tend to be longer than the posts themselves (many times longer, in fact, when added together).
While on topic you make some interesting points. Perhaps I will have to look into this Revolution more seriously…
Hmmm
November 5th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
For once, friend David, I shall try to be brief.
I’m glad our intercourse (remember when that word made you giggle or smirk?) pleases you.
I honestly do look to you, and people your age, to help me figure out where we’re headed. I am a student of history, but often learn as much from the future (that’s you!) as ever from the past.
Don’t worry about carrying me, I’ll be no burden while I live; but beware, David, millions of our fellow Americans will be straining the system in the years ahead. Politicians will only do what we, to use your word, “force” them to do. If we don’t shake ‘em up with repeated 8.2’s, they’ll continue to act as if the earth only moves when they say so.
You and I may be “nobodys” in the great scheme of things, but as harry Nilsson once observed, “You don’t have to have a point, to have a point, dig?”