Sure,
they also have a lot of similarities, but there is still a difference,
and it makes more sense to look at the differences when making the
choice. Of course you also have the option of voting for another
candidate, but with the electoral college still in place you are just
pissing into the wind as far as outcome goes (though if you know for
certainty that your vote is a throw-away because of the state you live
in and the electoral college, by all means cast that protest vote... I
have done it myself in some years).
There is a lot at stake,
and either way we will have to keep fighting for a lot of things after
the election, but if there is less oppression of women, gays, and other
minorities after the election, we can put more energy into the fight for
a planet we can keep living with, and the last thing the 99% need are
tax increases to pay for even more corporate welfare.
If we get Obama, we will have fewer battles to fight and more to f
ight
them with. If we get Romney, blood will run in our own streets within
the next four years, because he will hurl us to the tipping point where
too many people really have nothing to lose and a hungry man is an angry
man. American women will learn to live in fear like the poor gals in
the middle east. A climate of fear worse than the McCarthy era will
rise like a poisonous vapor to cover the land. Cancer rates, already on
the rise, will skyrocket. America will become as filthy and polluted
as China (believe me, it is not even close now).
If Obama had
kept more of his promises regarding dirty energy, gmo food, a public
option, and the need for climate action, he wouldn't be half bad as
presidents go. He has done positive things and has not attacked gays,
women, etc. The NDAA is unfortunate, to say the least, but it's not
like Mitt is against it... that's just one where they cancel out. I
shudder to think who we will get if Mitt ever gets to make an
appointment to the supremes. If Mitt is elected, all of that will be
even worse, but Obama has done good things when he's not forgetting
promises, and we will have more energy and resource to keep fighting for
what's really right, for a way to have a government that gives the
people what the majority really want, if we get Obama.
I am old
enough to not only remember Nader (who I have cast throw-away votes for
myself) but John Anderson as well. John delivered America into the
hands of Reagan on a silver platter (and then basically disappeared into
the mist), and it has been mostly downhill ever since. If you want a
hope of an actual win by anyone but a pug or dem, then throw yourself
heart and soul into campaigns to get rid of the electoral college and
level out the playing field for campaign contributions and publicity
with election reform. Until we get that, the plain fact is that we are
going to get one or the other, and I don't want to live in an America
ruled by a lying scum religious fanatic who doesn't give even half a
shit about the 99%.
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