I understand how you feel Mr. Myagi, it's just that I feel my vote for Nader has a lot more potential to change things, and begin to cut into the two part monopoly that we currently have. I feel a vote for Nader has a chance to give the Green part necessary funds to remain relevant and become an overseer of the two major parties. I want more open diversified elections where many different views and issues can be displayed. I just don't feel that under the current two party system we will see dramatic progress. And as long as campaign finance reform remians unresolved, I guarantee you that we will never see any dramtic change.
It's funny how conservative people speak of Communism in regards to social reform, when in reality the new Communism is big business, and the consolidation of power by people who are only interested in money and social status, and not in improving peoples lives, and intensifying Democracy.
Our problem is that for the most part the wealthy influence politics more than any other group, yet form the smallest group of our population. The poor, unlike most other countries, are basically absent from politics.
The reason the poor are not involved in politics in this country is because they have been made to feel that their vote doesn't count.
Of course this needs to change by widening the way our elections are carried out, and having real issues offered to people.
And there is one last point I wanted to make.
My numbers were wrong, George W. Bush has sentenced 125 people to death during his term as Governor.
He likes to smile and brag when he talks about executions so I think he msut feel greatly responsible for what has happned on Texas' death row.
I think what people fail to realize in an argument reagarding the death penalty is that it's not about the guilty criminal, it's about the innocent person who gets put to death.
Even if it was only one person it would be unacceptable, yet it is much more, and Conservative people don't seem to grasp this.
I mean let's be truthful, most conservative people have intense religious leanings, and that being said, do you really think that people who believe in an imaginary man in the sky, who punishes you for bad deeds, and rewards you for good ones, really have the rational and intelligence to know what they are talking about?
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