Why are we ready to roll over so fast? [View All]

[diamondsoul]

Ok roll over may be a little extreme, but honestly that's how it feels to me. Approximately 25% of the votes are in and people have decided the race is over. Not this chick!

I'm not finished, I have things I'm determined to see changed, and things I want addressed and I have no intention of shutting up and falling in line behind either of the two current front-runners!

Tell ya what folks, how about you show me how John Kerry or John Edwards are advocating radical changes to our election process so the popular vote actually means something. I don't see it. Dennis Kucinich says IRV, public funding of campaigns, cut the corporate control, free and open debates with fair coverage standards applied, bust the media monopolies so we don't have what we're seeing now. Anyone else plan to make ME count again?

I got frustrated for a couple of days. Music yanked me out of it. You want Democratic Unity, as the song says, Gimme one reason to stay here! Right now it's not happening and I'm not alone. There are things that scare me more than another Bush term. Peple who refuse to stand up and tell the powers that be "THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!" scare me. People who think that winning with no reward behind it is good enough scare me.

What do I win when jobs are still being shuffled off to other nations? What do I win when soliders are stil dying in Iraq and Afghanistan? What do I win when my health insurance still doesn't make my medical care affordable? What do I win? NOTHING.

I go back to the Kucinich song "WMDs". It's one of my favorites because it just says it all-

"I think that I can be of help to this administration in it's efforts to find weapons of mass destruction....Because Mr. President they're here at home! Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction! Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction! Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction! And when a government lies to it's people THAT is a weapon of mass destruction!

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It's weapons of mass destruction, eyes are captured by the lies of the comin' attraction. Our lives in the hands of war profiteers, we need Kucinich to reflect the peple's image."

But no. Some of us are willing to hand it all over to a middle of the road, status quo candidate. Fear. I'm so sick of living in fear so I quit! I quit in March of last year, and so help me I WILL NOT GO BACK! Dennis Kucinich has lived some of the worst America can do and he's never ONCE given up. I'll be damned if that isn't an example worth following.

I'm not interested inhearing the same BS I've heard for decades while we keep going down the path to ruin. I'm not interested in China retaining favored nation status! I'm not interested in "fixing" a 10 yr old trade agreement that has had amendment after amendment proposed with absolutely NO impact! I'm not interested in keeping a for profit healthcare system that leaves THOUSANDS to die because they can't afford what they need to survive!

You want unity? You'd best give me something to unite behind or it's syonara Democratic Party. I may stay in the country and there will be only one thing that makes think that's even worth doing- Dennis John Kucinich. He'll need my support while he keeps on fighting for me.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT AND FALL IN LINE, AND WE WILL NOT DISAPPEAR BECUSE YOU CHOOSE NOT TO HEAR US!