Amen, sister. The lousy taste in my mouth from the two party system is at an all time, acrid high. Only a few months ago I was sad I couldn't vote for John Edwards in the NJ primary. Enough said there.
And yet, whenever I actually enter the booth and pull the lever ... I cannot help but feel the weight of the disenfranchised resting on that lever with me. Those who have marched, fought, bled to cast a vote. The millions who died never knowing the experience.
I used to know scads of people who never signed up to vote, simply because to register supposedly made them more likely to be selected for jury duty. So much for democracy at any level.
Cynical I am in 2008. But the idea of sitting out any election in "protest" of the major annointed candidates is sad version of the old German expression "no answer is also an answer." Their answer is the worst kind of "no" -- a no to all investment, and ultimately no to responsibility for the acts and actions of the society at large. there's no protest but merely the most pitiful, childish kind of indifference -- playing on the playground oblivious to the needs of others.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
