Reply #3: If the situation was as you describe it, you'd be right. [View All]

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But it isn't. There are miles and miles of difference between Bush and Kerry. Here's a link to Kerry's voting record, just for starters.
http://forum.johnkerry.com//index.php?s=5344f11361da6351da2408d137a63331&showtopic=215

Kerry is a well-established pro-environment liberal and Ted Kennedy ally. 9/11 warped politics for everybody in late 2001 and in 2002, but that time is past. Kerry is out against the war and against the problematical parts of the PATRIOT ACT.

If what you want to do is overthrow the economic system of the country, well, the electorate doesn't want that and they aren't going to want it no matter who we nominate or support. If we nominate a Green, we'll get the Green result - 3% of the popular vote, 0% of the electoral vote.

Look at history and you'll see that all good changes came incrementally. They came when the national mood shifted in a progressive direction and they came when people of good will were in positions of power and influence to help them along. None of those things will be helped by the election of George Bush. All of them would be helped by the election of John Kerry.

It's useless politics to squall because we can't get everything we want. Politics doesn't work that way. It's a matter of majorities and coalitions, not a matter of screaming or holding our breath until we turn blue.