Reply #65: "'Freedom' is just another word for nothing left to lose.... [View All]

Poor Spongebob Thyme person has been thinking I don't support Cindy when I actually do support Cindy. S/he thought this because I quoted the rules and the rules here do state you cannot support a third party if they are running against a Democrat. I merely point out rules because I, too, am a board runner and I know that without rules, a board can sink fast. HOWEVER, THAT SAID, I WISH SKINNER WOULD TWEAK THAT RULE. I think it would be nice if he made it where we can support third parties in situations where they are LEAGUES more progressive than the Democrat.

I am a Texan. I think because of that I see more of the whole picture of the parties than some people where it's always been...Republican=Conservative and Democrat=Liberal. Texas is now a Republican state but I remember when a Republican could not get elected for dog catcher in Texas. Not because we used to be progressive but because the Democrats in Texas were bigoted, racist, conservative, DIXIECRATS. "Democrat" by itself means little. There have been horrid Democrats. There have been racist Democrats thus the nickname "Dixiecrats" and the party itself used to list racial purity as one of it's goals. OUR party. ("Dixiecrat" was an actual entity itself but slangwise it means a conservative, racist Democrat from the South.)

Being a Democrat HAS to mean something for me to support it. Otherwise it's just a word. I don't like "Lite" anything. If I was a conservative I would just go vote for a Republican. I won't support a conservative Democrat. Period. I won't support any conservative.

I don't usually support third party voting for the president because I know that the person in that office actually can affect the standard of life for many people, the poor, the homeless, the uninsured, the ill, the disenfranchised, etc. So I am one of the rare far leftists who will not support a third party for president...usually. Too many people suffer under a Republican in the highest office. It's just armchair politicking when some principle becomes more important than Real Lives of Real People. I have been homeless and I am needy of medical care. I know what most Republicans do to social programs. ..but all that changes when the Democrat is REALLY A CONSERVATIVE or really useless and worthless. What's the point if the Democrat is no better than any other Right Winger? (...and I will never forgive Clinton for what he did to Food Stamps and AFDC, just btw.)

I mean really, someone tell me the point of supporting conservative Democrats. I guess I'm not really a Democrat, though I am registered that way. I am progressive. WHEN the Democrat is the progressive on the ticket, they will get my vote. When someone else is more progressive, they will get my vote.
Lee