I would say "far be it from me to..." but since I am writing this I guess that would be not exactly accurate now would it?
Below the fold may get a bit ranty, and it certainly will not be well organized or composed since I am going to just grip it and rip it here and let the old stream consciousness take me where it will... but it will lay out exactly what I see as the consequences are from some people with overly sensitive sensibilities (which for some of you that may remember some of the stuff I wrote way back on purity in regards impeachment and torture prosecutions is going to seem quite rich), sitting out an election because they did not get EVERYTHING that they wanted.
And no.. I am not planning on being especially kind in the doing....
So? You are planning on sitting out the election to punish the party for not giving you everything that you wanted.. just some of it.
Fantastic! Brilliant! What a clever way of ensuring that instead of picking up yards in a steady grind to the goal you hand the ball over to the other team so that they can grind it out to THEIR goal!
You know what you get when you sit on your lazy asses during an election?
You get Bush.. you get Iraq, you get 911, you get two supreme court appointments that are instrumental in damaging the republic, you get torture with a steaming side order of economic disaster!
That is what you get.
What you don't get? Anything GOOD! What don't you knuckleheads get about being a PROGRESSIVE! You progress, as in move forward CONSTANTLY.. yes that takes time you lazy POS, and effort and it isn't going to be handed to you on a silver platter nor all at once! No.. I am not going to apologize for calling you out on your utter and inane STUPIDITY on this! You are an ADULT, you should understand fully and completely the consequences of your actions and your INACTION! And to sit back on your butt during ANY election for the next decade is to betray everyone around you, it stops all progress toward the goal and it risks undoing what progress has been made thus far toward fixing problems.
You think having people that generally agree with you and your end goals is best served by NOT voting for them?
Are you high? Did you suffer some form of traumatic brain injury? Or are you just so brain dead that you don't understand cause and effect?
If your guys lose they can't do anything. You make NO PROGRESS.. you tread water and pray that you have the endurance not to drown and worse? You make that decision for OTHERS. Because you are not just voting for you you dunderhead! You are voting for ME, my son, your daughter, the old and sick and everyone else that generally agrees with you who get not one dram of anything unless YOU stand your ground, hold your damn nose and do your freaking duty and shoulder your share of the burden!
So yes, dissent is great and all.. pitching a fit and fighting for your position is totally justified and noble.. but that shit ENDS when the battle is joined!
And if you have not been paying attention the last.. oh.. say year?
The battle is joined.
You cast your ballot, not just for you; but for those standing with you on the line.. because to do otherwise is to guarantee that not only you will not get anything you want, but the will not as well. It really is a simple choice: You can get some of what you want or you can get NONE OF WHAT YOU WANT.
Sitting it out as some kind of punishment doesn't punish who you think you are targeting it just screws the little people.. nothing big, nothing huge, it just shows the people that rely upon US to fight for them that we can not be trusted, or relied upon to deliver at all.
So yes, it is a treason. It is a treason to yourself, to me, to every working person that will be left without an advocate because you want to spend your time and effort throwing a hissy fit unworthy of a mature 12 year old!
Grow up!
I don't give a good god damn if this gives you stomach upset or cramps or offends your delicate sensibilities but apparently some of us around here did not learn a fundamental life lesson while becoming adults: You don't always get your way, and throwing a tantrum only makes it less likely that you will get it.
Wonder why the country is in such crap shape?
It is because good people sat on their butts and did not vote.
You want to be part of the solution or are you going to continue to waste everyones time by being part of the problem?
Your call.
Have you gotten everything that you were promised? No, and neither have I. But you do know that you have gotten SOME of what you were promised and the other guys will not give you anything that you want, need, or desire. You also know that if you stay home that they win.
How is that not a treason? You know the consequence of your inaction, and yet you want to be held up and exulted for doing it?
There is nothing noble in sitting it out. There is no greater good that will be served.. and to think otherwise given the results of the past when others have thrown their tantrums is to lie not only to me, but to yourself.
Sitting it out hands the country back to not just the GOP.. it hands it to the Palin wing of the GOP.
And for that you deserve not praise!
You want me to care about your cause? Fine, I have no problem in doing so.. the price for that support is that you don't take your ball and go home when the going gets tough or we don't advance at a pace that fits your whim. You shoulder the damn burden and you vote. You don't fade off, you don't run off, and you don't stop and try to extort concessions at the height of battle!
You sit on your ass again and mentally masturbate about how pure you are and how just your reasons are at not only your own peril but at mine.. and every GLBT person in the country.. because although not moving fast enough on the issue our guys WILL at least move in the right direction when they do and the other guys won't. You put at risk 30 million Americans healthcare.. the list is long.
And that is not be lauded. That is to be reviled.