I will not vote for Hillary in the General Election
Sun Aug 26, 2007 at 07:17:16 PM PDT
There. I said it.
I will not vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election. No matter what. I'm trying the idea on for size anyway and really it feels pretty good.
Those who have not skipped directly to troll rating my tip jar may be wondering why I would take such a seemingly destructive position, one that is contrary to my own self-interest.
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My reasoning:
As many here have stated, the country and the American people are crying out for change. Big change. We all know damn well that Hillary will try and run on that if she's nominated. She'll talk about how the dark days are going to be behind us. Then she'll win. And then . . . nothing will change. Not like what people will want and not like she'll lead them to believe while running.
Think of it this way. Suppose the Democratic party is not a political party, but a company that made oatmeal cookies and instead of activists and supporters we are cookie salesmen. Fiercely loyal cookie salesmen. We've got our regular buyers who trust us because we believe in our product. We've had some production problems recently which a competitor has taken advantage of to try and push us out of the market. We won't have it though. Our customers are screaming out for our cookies. They want our cookies. The good ones. The ones we believe in. We hear their call and put out word that we're starting a new campaign to bring them new cookies. For the first time in years they will have a choice to not buy the other brand's nasty cookies. As always, we stand behind our cookies. We overrun the airwaves in all media markets with ads talking about how much better our cookies are going to be, how the years of longing are about to be over. People believe we've got some revolutionary cookies in the oven. The day they go on sale in November, people line up to buy them. Some wait in line for hours. Finlay it's time for the big payoff. They get the new cookies home and take a bite . . . and are let down.
Whose fault is this?
Sooner or later people are just going to stop eating cookies. Have the country already has.
Whose fault is this?
Who let it reach the point of people going home with crappy cookies that have our name on them?
The point is that the Democratic party is a brand. Brands don't have inherent value. The only way a brand can have value is if it stands for something. If we want people to trust our brand we need to protect it. Before you troll rate my tip jar, think of this. The purpose of this site is to help democrats get elected. Democrats. That's plural. Not democrat. The only way people are going to buy our brand and vote for democrats is if it stands for a quality product that we believe in. Anything that weakens that brand decreases the chance that people will buy it again in the future. If helping elect one democrat one time decreases the number of democrats likely to be elected in the future, that's a net loss. That's not helping elect democrats. That's helping destroy a brand.
