You say you're anti-war, pro-equal marriage rights, pro-choice, etc., etc., etc. So stop crying e-poverty* and stop insisting that it "doesn't matter" what you do, that assholes will still get elected. "Liberals" across the US have been claiming rainbows and puppy dogs and fluffy bunnies ever since the Democrats OMG SWEEPED TEH MIDTERMS! You know how it was done? Because volunteers and interns worked their asses off knocking doors and leafletting all over the place. Because people like you ponied up $25 now and again to contribute to their campaigns. Because people started to realize "HOT DAMN I CAN MAKE SOME SORT OF DIFFERENCE!"
So put your money where your mouth is.
If you're a liberal, you should be working your ass off to get Kucinich on the Presidential ticket. Do you really think that Obama, Clinton or Edwards will fully support your views in office? Bwahahahaha.
Here's the problem: the country has shifted so far to the right that anyone left of center is thought to be "liberal," when they are in fact almost as bad as the right. US citizens have heard over and over again that the 2006 midterms showed that OMG TEH COUNTRY IS SOOOO RIGHT WING CAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY CONSERVATIVE DEMS IN OFFICE. And most "liberals" argued their little brains out that this was soooooo not true.
Wasn't it? As I said above, the country has shifted pretty far right in the past 8ish years or so. It's shifted so far that not only are the right-wingers insisting that Congress is full of "San Francisco values" (lololol), but most "liberals" think they are so progressive and omgleftwing, despite the fact they think Clinton is a wonderful choice for president or that Pelosi as Speaker is some huge step for progressive values. Um. YEAH.
I understand that, right now, a white woman or a person of color will have to be fairly conservative to be elected president. And while I do feel that it's about damn time that we have a president who isn't an old white dude, I'm not going to get googly eyed over the prospect of a just-left-of-center minority in office. That is not a victory for me. It certainly isn't a victory when I'm worried about my civil liberties, specifically in respect to my non-belief. Considering that I've read some pretty fucking troubling quotes from Barack Obama regarding atheism, I cannot treat him like an actual liberal.
