Democrats abandon Feingold on proposed NSA censure

[mburbank]

"In a government where the amount of money one owns has no bearing whatsoever, "

How would that work, exactly? Not that I don't applaud the idea, but how? Legislate against it? That's what I'M for, not that it would solve the problem since everybody has a price, but it might make it harder. Seriously, I'm open to any and all ideas that takes money out f the political equation.

"I'd love to see you voting for the person that best represents your true ideology or abstaining. "

I generally get to do that in the primaries. Hell, I voted for nader the first time around and if Dean hadn't run, I'd have voted foir him again despite the fact that he is quite obviously crackers. But my guy always looses by miles and then it's vote for for the guy whos less satanic. I admit it approaches poinlessness, but I like the little curtains on the booth.

I think your pretty much correct in your assesment of my views on the greedy rich. Pitiful poor... It depends on what you mean. I don't think the poor are inherently better than the rich (unless you count that small few who only keep what money they need and divest the rest, bhuddist monks, crazy people and the like). The Rich just have so much more power to express their baseness and hurt huge swaths of other people. The poorer you get, the less people you can really hurt, until your down to deliberately peeing on the guy sharing your cardboard.

I've always had the impression that the Liberatarians are lousy with Gun nuts, survivalists and people who think they were abducted by Aliens. Which is not to say that the Democrats aren't lousy with equally shitty and far less colorful constituents. I currently loathe the party for it's collective lack of spine and feel that if the Republicans succeed in solid one party facism we will be more to blame than they are. Sharks eat bloody stuff 'cause it's in their nature. It's hrd to feel bad for fish that cut themselves.

I like Bernie Sanders. He's an independant. I think I'm going to be one of those. I don't like the smell of the Deomcrats anymore.