Dissent is Patriotic

Four more years of playing Russian roulette with foreign policy, public education, human rights, civil liberties, and the environment. Four more years of hypocrisy from the religious right and their moral values rhetoric. Four more years of flag waving rednecks joyously howling that America kicks butt...and accusations that speaking out against American foreign policy is subversive.

Speaking out is perceived as not supporting our troops...I disagree. Not speaking out is negligent. If more people would stick to their ideological guns, our youth would not be sacrificing their lives for the wild ambitions of the militant goose-stepping Right, and their circus of searching for WMDs and fabricated Iraq-al Queda links.

Thankfully, I think I've finally snapped out of my post-election funk... let's face it, Kerry was just a decaffeinated King George. He was already pandering to the foreign policy hawks. Knowing that New York was solidly in the non-Bush electoral tally, I had no regrets voting for Nader.

Bottom line: Despite the pleading by many on the Left for Nader to abandon his campaign, his was the only platform that condemned the invasion of Iraq and called for an immediate withdrawal from our military occupation of Iraq.

I'm still irritated with the primaries, as a New Yorker, there wasn't much of an option. Dean was on the ballot-though he had already bowed out after his raging political faux pas, and Kucinich was deemed too far left. The others were sitting the fence regarding Iraq. Too bad the anti-war campaign peaked too early...let's hope that Bush doesn't have the huevos to take on another preemptive military campaign with the blood of America's youth.