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The several-times-quoted remark about serious activists and elections is OTM, as far as I can see. Elections are about where the center is today. Activism is about taking actions today that will push, pull, guide or lead the center to a new position.
The best an election result can do is ameliorate the worst of the current problems. Trading President Bush in for a President Kerry would be a small shift in the correct direction. Being small doesn't make it worthless. But if you let the election dominate your thinking and actions, you'll succumb to short term thinking and daily tactics without a strategy.
By all means, vote. It takes almost no effort. And work for any candidate you think will represent you well. But, if you want to see change at the root, you'll have to take a much longer view and plan accordingly.
― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
I agree with Kerry. I have the same problem with
Nickel and Dimed- I totally don't want to know what the stage version is like
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, amatuer!st, small.
Kerry can't (and won't) do squat to change the overall dynamic in DC. The Pentagon budget will still be crammed with $100,000,000,000 of waste, while the country will still be vulnerable to terrorists. The USA will still plant its flag in military bases all over the world. The oil, insurance, banking, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries will still make their own rules for Congress to rubber stamp. The tax structure will remain regressive. The federal deficit, SS bancruptcy, and underfunded private pension system will stay right on course to make the biggest economic train wreck the USA has ever seen.
So, yes, small. Whether you are sick of the argument or not.
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 27 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
fourteen years pass...