i got an email from the howard dean campaign yesterday soliciting a donation. at first, i ignored it but the subject line stuck in my head: now is the time.
i thought about that subject line a lot today and about the future of this country. i also thought about some of the reasons why i left the democratic party [1]. the main reason i left the democrats for the greens [2] was that i saw the party become a "republican-lite" party. the party seemed more focused on getting elected than it was on the actual issues they are supposed to be fighting for. i really feel that this whole "new democrat [3]" nonsense is destroying the party.
howard dean [4] seems different. he is not my ideal candidate (that would be Dennis Kucinich [5]) but he is not another "dlc [6] democrat." i think that if he...
