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Yesterday Neil & I went knocking to get people out to see Ralph Nader at his upcoming rally in San Diego next Saturday. We went with (the) two other Nader supporters in San Diego. One was our new friend Dennis. He is the head of the gay bowling league in San Diego, among other things. He is really fearless. He showed us the ropes & hit the streets.

While the experience was intimidating, it made me take a deep breath & remember that most people are just really nice people. They just want to have nice lives, nice kids, nice neighbors. They don’t hate. They are just nice. Even the Obama peeps were really nice & took our fliers etc. We also had some people that were really enthusiastic about Nader & it was great to get out the information to them.

I found an article that explains all the frustration I feel about the two party system. Please read it:

“…Yet most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean, protest with a full-blown movement.

Here’s a news flash: Anti-Bush bumper stickers and a heartfelt commitment to recycled toilet paper don’t constitute a movement. Neither do candlelight vigils, vegan diets, petitions, voting drives, letters to Congress, monthly donations to Greenpeace, yellow ribbons, red ribbons, pink ribbons, or becoming the change you wish to see in the world.

All you need is love? Yeah…that and a million dollars a minute.

This is not meant to denigrate or mock but rather to point out that there is a huge difference between having a sincere minority of Americans partaking in such gestures and having a tangible, functional, effective movement capable of inciting, inspiring, demanding social change. The rest of the world knows this…why don’t we?”

Please find the rest of this article at Dissident Voice. It’s everything I want to say to everyone about the election and the state of our nation. Lucky for me, someone else wrote it all out.