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[Feb. 3rd, 2008|02:45 pm] |
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I'm so sick of having to pick between two moderates in the democratic primaries. Sadly, my Dennis Kucinich swag arrived in the mail yesterday. I was working for his campaign. He was excluded from all the debates by the corporate media that doesn't want his perspective exposed.
Often called the conscience of the Democratic Party, Kucinich believes in Single-Payer universal health care, an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, and end to war, gay marriage, a completely revised set of federal programs to end all kinds of discrimination, a Department of Peace, massive foreign and local aid to end poverty, repealing the Bush tax cuts and raising the rates to reasonable levels for corporations and the upper class, ending the Patriot Act, instituting progressive border reform, moving to 100% sustainable energy, ending the war on drugs, ending the death penalty, ending the pharmaceutical companies grip on our drugs, providing massive funding towards AIDS research, ending torture, etc.
All of his views are viewable at http://www.dennis4president.com/go/issues/ . He has been since forced to leave the presidential primary because the media refused to cover him, including supposedly progressive groups like the Congressional Black Congress. They invited him by default to debates as the fourth place contender, realized he wasn't moderate like Bill Richardson, and subsequently went to court to exclude him. Now the traitorous and corporate Democratic Party is trying to remove him from his seat in congress. In polls of progressives, Dennis nearly always wins. And frankly, I didn't want to vote for someone in the primaries who doesn't believe in my human rights. If I'd known the primaries would come down to this, I'd have considered registering Green. Their front-runner, Cynthia McKinney is an amazing woman who'd effect massive and positive change as president.
But, as a registered Democrat, I held my nose and voted for Obama. It's unreasonable to compare him or Hillary to psychos like the Republicans. At least these two believe in civil unions, which is a good first step. Republicans believe in a constitutional amendment against us. And at least they'll get us out of Iraq, and are way less likely to make a mess out of Iran. And on the environment, the Democrats and Republicans are incredibly disparate. Until we can stop the Republicans, social justice, gay rights, and peace are all pipe dreams. |
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