Political musing (feel free to skip)

[flewellyn]

Following the primaries, I'm still very much undecided whether I want to support Obama or not. Both my first choice (Edwards) and my second (Clinton) have come out in support of him, and that says a lot to me.

But then I hear about stuff like this, in which protestors and dissenters at an Obama rally were systematically excluded and dismissed by his campaign's operatives. And it makes me wonder...isn't this Bush stuff? If Obama means to unify the party, how come his campaign's actions seem geared toward unity through purge?

Very discomfitting. If Obama turns out to be Bush Lite, then my choices at the ballot box will be Bush Lite or Bush Redux. Not much of a choice, is it?

Comments

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

What leaves us stuck with this system is the mentality that we have to vote for the lesser of two evils.

I don't think that's the only thing, quite frankly. There are plenty of Democrats who are happy with the Democratic party and not liberal enough for the extreme-left third parties; even if everyone who agreed with the Green Party (for example) voted for them, they still wouldn't win a plurality. I don't think we actually have enough third parties to sufficiently splinter the Democratic and Republican voting blocs even if the Utopian fantasy of everyone voting for people who represent their views exactly came true.

If sufficient numbers of people would vote for candidates they actually DO like and believe in

I actually do like and believe in Obama. And I'm a feminist. So, yeah.