Reply #7: I Have Decided I Will Not Vote [View All]

I have decided that I will not vote at all, which really bothers me to think, because I generally think everyone should vote every time, etc. Because of the National Democratic Party's ruling against these earlier primaries, and attempts to keep them pushed a little back, (as expressed by such great people as Howard Dean who saved the Party, and James Roosevelt the grandson of Franklin and Eleanor, who has fought against the Social Security-killers ever since), I figured all along that I would probably not support the earlier date. All this does is move it all up, extend the already too-long campaign calendar, and infuse even more corporate money into the system, as these States are too large to be caucused as Iowa was, and will therefore be nothing but these shitty TV/radio etc. ads. This makes the corporate influence even larger, as they all have to raise even more money.

I even noticed that my real first choice, Sen. Chris Dodd, is actually still on the ballot here, and thought of voting for Dodd as a symbolic vote of support, but I do not want to support all these increasingly moved-up primary States, and so I have decided I will not vote. I hate doing that, but I want to support the National Democratic Party's disapproval of all of this jockeying forward to no end.