When the election is this hard to really get excited for, yearning for vengeance might be the noblest choice.
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Hey even if if you don't live in one of the "seven states that matter" for the presidential election, everyplace has important local races and ballot measures that matter a lot. Everyone has some revenge to get even if your state isn't a swingy one.
The cat disappears!
Agreed that even an unenthusiastic vote for Obama (or someone else to the left of Romney) can be seen as a vote against, and revenge for, a particularly nasty, cynical, dishonest, deliberately divisive campaign run by Romney this past year. That is worthy of a vote against. I do wonder if the post-election huddle for a defeated Romney would include an honest look at their legacy, or the verdict that they weren’t far enough to the right. The more votes against this campaign, however, the less likely that is (I hope; maybe? I don’t know).
I feel so sorry for you. When the day comes you notice that there is no real difference between the two parties I hope it doesn't break you.
Wow you clearly have no idea who you are talking about. Try watching some of his other videos and maybe you will see how on point J really is about a lot of things, politics being one of them.
There was a list of 7 (progressive) things. It's interesting, I'm a progressive and my top 7 list is very different from J's:
1. Reproductive rights
2. Supreme Court
3. Marriage equality
4. Affordable healthcare
5. Science (climate)
6. Reproductive rights a 2nd time
7. Immigration
My list:
1. Financial reform –banks, ratings, academia
2. Education
3. Infrastructure- transportation, climate & health
4. Drug war – justice
5. Civil liberties-executive power
6. Surveillance/security apparatus
7. Drone policy- domestic
Now my wing believes in the issues in J's top 7 without question, actively but the top 7 wing does not voice, with the same intensity, support for the bottom 7. Cause I sooo wish, in this new coalition, that drug war & incarceration could become as important as semantics over the concept of marriage & the issue of climate change.
yes.