OBVIOUSLY NOBODY IS READING THE ENTIRE DIARY. LMAO, BUT I LOVE HOW PEOPLE ARE RESPONDING.
(This is for anyone that refuses to vote because they think the Democrats just don't measure up to their purity standards. If you want to see what you have caused in the past, just take a look at this post over at the Common Dreams website)
It's no use, you can talk until you're blue in the face, but I'm not going to vote. I have my standards and my pride, and I won't be coerced against my will. I regret that it has come to this, but there's no way in good conscience I can perform the deed. You all will just have to get used to it.
Sometimes a person just has to stand up for what they think is right, damn the consequences. I don't care that my petulance has helped men like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan get elected president. That's not my problem. Join me below the fold and I'll explain to you all of the reasons that I will not vote in this election.
Barack Obama has been playing us for chumps, and I don't like it one bit. This namby-pamby healthcare reform bill he passed was an insult, and the fact that he hasn't repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell irks me to no end. Wall Street reform didn't go nearly far enough, and he didn't break up any of the banks that are too big to fail. He hasn't pushed through immigration reform and the economy is still weak. Where are the jobs, Mr. President? I mean, come on now, it's been 20 months. Get off your ass and do something.
Now I know all of you Obamabots out there are going to tell me to be reasonable, but that's what makes you Obamabots. You are not now, nor have you ever been, truly understanding of the problem. If you would only listen to me and my superior intellect and pristine ideology then all of you would be smart enough to stay home, too. No, you all foolishly keep falling for that old line of hope and change, and you don't realize that you're being played for chumps. Obama hasn't kept any of his promises. That's why you need someone like me to show you the light, because I am so intellectually superior to you all. If you would listen to me and do what I say, we wouldn't be in this mess. I know what's best for this country, and you're all just a bunch of Obamabots.
He hasn't done anything for me. I don't have a new job, a new house or a new car. He didn't even come over to eat supper with me when I invited him. He hasn't sent anybody over to cut my grass, and I haven't received a check in the mail for $5 million. There's still not anyone that likes me, and I don't have any friends, so all I can do is sit around on this stupid website and complain about how stupid the Obamabots are. So I'm just going to sit here in my mom's basement and not vote, and that'll show you, and you all are just a bunch of poopyheads anyhow. And, and, and...
Ahem.
To those of us who have knocked on 1000 doors this election cycle, that's exactly how you sound. No, really! That's exactly how you sound. You and your bullshit superiority complexes and purity tests really get on our nerves.
It's no wonder the candidates run from you like you're the plague. Part of their job is to get elected, and to do that requires a reasonable and mature constituency upon which s/he can rely to cover his/her back, and as far as I can see some progressives aren't carrying their own water. It's no wonder candidates slide to the right to co-opt voters rather than rely on those emotionally immature progressives to cover their backs. While I am far to the left of most on this website, I am working furiously to get a Blue Dog Democrat re-elected to Congress, because I understand he's a damn sight better than the teabaggers' alternative, Brad Zaun. And I'm not so damned stupid that I'll cut off my own nose to spite my face.
So give us all a break. Quit your whining, get off your asses and get out there and vote. While you're at it you might volunteer to do some work on the final push before election day. It's the least you can do, and maybe you might even get some of us to change our minds about you.