I moved this out of yt's exhortation to vote because if there was ever a thread derailer, this is it.
If there is a party that cheers letting the uninsured die, and supports the rest of the horribly regressive, hateful and racist platform as the modern GOP, they are to my mind illegitimate. Climate change is at at tipping point, and if there is a party that exists to ensure nothing is done to save the planet? It is perpetrating nothing less than an assault on free peoples. The head of Obama's EPA was on Bill Maher the other night bragging about how they're going to try in "2014" to get a "25% reduction in auto emissions by 2025". By then it will be too late. The Pentagon admitted years ago that climate change was real and that they're planning national security contingencies around the idea there will be wars for water and food in the coming decades, as the world is thrown into chaos. The time for hoping that the American experiment will sort itself out and provide us with the tools needed to turn things around is over. It's time for a party that exists to give us all a fresh start
No one has a right deny health care to the sick, or imperil the future of the planet. Cloaking these positions in the guise of "democracy" doesn't make them right. Those that support such notions have lost the legitimacy to rule. If the system has two parties, and neither can serve the people, then this form of "democracy" isn't working, and needs to be torn down in order to start over. When the economy tanks due to peak oil, or there is an epidemic and the people are dying by the thousands for lack of health care (and the government cannot help them because it's been crippled by corporations), that's when we'll get real change. I just hope there is a chance it will happen sooner than that, and OCCUPY may well evolve to provide us with that opportunity in the coming months
American democracy is an elaborate sham. We need a party that will pledge, in a single election, to take both houses and rewrite the constitution on principals of fairness and equality. This fidelity to the ideals of the 18th century is just a trick to leave people without a voice or the means to protect themselves against the interests of the rich and powerful
That's my take, and that's all I have to say
