Fucking done.
With the lolection season already starting to take shape for 2012, I'm ALREADY getting sick of people criticizing Obama for a multitude of very real, very heinous policy decisions... and then doing a total about-face and saying, "Oh, but I'm still gonna vote for him though, you'd be stupid not to, lololololol." Sorry, what
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Exactly. I'm not arguing that third-party voting is obviously~ the better choice or that Obama voters are deluded; I just challenge the widely accepted myth that their vote is significantly more effective at bringing about change than mine is simply because their candidate won. We have seen very little change in the status quo on war, the poor, the economy, and minorities, and we are supposed to take Lily Ledbetter and several specific health care reform laws and be good little grateful libruls who are happy with those piecemeal victories and would never dare complain about the way this administration has absolutely been an active obstacle to real change on a wide variety of other fronts.
but I'm not really of the "and that's why I don't vote" mentality; I would rather take direct action (what's really needed) and simultaneously throw a vote out for the anti-establishment candidate(s) just to tell them "yes, some people here care what you say, and thank you for saying it."
Precisely! I think this is an important thing to keep in mind. When I say that my vote is just as much a "waste" as a typical party-line Dem's vote, I'm not trying to be like one of those ignorant folk who don't even follow politics but say shit like, "Lolololol I never vote 'cause they're all crooks amirite~" It's just pointing out that change is more than just who you vote for, so to fixate on the "waste" of a third-party vote just totally misses the point when it comes to trying to figure out how to get ourselves out of this mess.
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