Doc,
Sorry for being a
pig-headed old fart but it has always worked for me.
The way I understand you, and please correct me if I am
wrong, is that you would like me to agree that it is pragmatic to vote Bush out of office. I agree that it is
possibly so. However, as I was trying to point out, there are many good honest people who believe Kerry would be a
far greater disaster than Bush. I don't know if that is true either. What I do know is that both the democrats and
republicans have been responsible for whittling away at our rights, that both parties have supported and condoned
policy decision after policy decision that are destroying the world we live in, that both parties continue to work
on reaching deeper into our pockets which harms every person in this country. I listen to each side and hear the
same noises I heard in the last election and the one before that and so on; "We are going to change things for the
better." But it never happens!
Certainly, there are differences between the democrats and the republicans, but
to my eye they are miniscule. Maybe Kerry would do some small good but maybe he would follow the party line while
bowing to those who paid good money to get him elected as has happened so many other times. History teaches us that
the later is more likely than the former.
There is a large segment of the population that believes Bush is doing
a good job, there is another large segment that believes he must be replaced with anybody. I am saying that we can
no longer afford either of the parties; we cannot afford the petty bickering and we cannot afford the the unkept
promises or the business as usual games that come out of Washington. In your view, pragmatism dictates that we vote
for Kerry because Bush is such a danger to this country, from other's view we must vote for Bush for the same
reasons. I reject both arguments as inherently flawed. They are both extremely dangerous to this country and the
difference between them is inconsequential.
I'm not trying to be difficult and I respect your right and desire
to vote your concience and your belief that you are doing the right thing to help this country. I intend to do the
same but mine tells me that my every political action must be directed towards changing the system rather than being
willing to compromise any longer.
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