By SJ Otto
There are a lot of communists, Marxist-Leninist and other
far leftists who strongly oppose voting. They believe our time is better spent
on building up a revolutionary movement that can overthrow our government. They
see voting as just a waist of time. Some times such far left people do read
this blog.
I hate Republicans and in retaliation I often vote for
Democrats. That is not because I really like the Democrats. At times they are
no better than Republicans. But I often vote for Democrats as the lesser of two
evils. Many of these far leftists refuse to vote for any Democrats. They even
hate Bernie Sanders and they consider Bernie and groups such as Democratic
Socialists of America to be enemies of their far left parties. Politics can get
strange. The Socialist Party USA
rejects voting for Democrats. They will only vote for socialist parties such as
themselves. On the other hand the actual Communist
Party USA, does cooperate with Democrats and they do vote for Democrats at
times.
I think
this year left us with plenty of reasons to vote and that is what I did. I
voted.
In this
year’s elections we had a man who was determined to stop poor people and many
working poor people from getting health care. That was true of both our local
Republican for Governor,
Kris Kobach and our actual president Donald Trump. Trump wasn’t running,
but many people voted for Democrats in US House races across the country, to
put the brakes on our idiot president.
Trump is
also out to destroy our environment. That is true of most Republicans, such as
Ron Estes, our 4rth district US House Representative. He won re-election, even
though his opponent James
Thompson, worked extra hard and Estes shuffled through the election without
doing to much work.
In my
state of Kansas
we had a man, Kobach, who was trying to destroy our public school system. He
wanted to carry on what Governor Sam Brownback had done for nearly eight years.
The point of all of this is that the election was not about
supporting bourgeois Democrats, it was about survival. Many of us had to live
in this state and many more of us have to live in this country. Health care is
a matter of life and death for a lot of people. We can’t afford to wait until
an actual revolution to fix these serious problems. It could take many years to
build a revolutionary movement. We can’t afford to wait all that time. We also
can’t afford to let a stupid politician destroy our schools. Those eight years
of a decimated school system stole education from a lot of young people and
those are years that can’t be replaced.
Richard Ranzau and his fellow right-wingers sent back grant
money needed for the WIC program, simply because they didn’t want poor
immigrants to get the milk and other products the system provides. There are
all kinds of poor people who needed that milk and the other products. Children
went hungry due to the negligence of those county commissioners. Their
motivations were prejudice and racism.
Voting had a concrete reality for many of us this fall. It
was not just a luxury. People’s lives were dependent on politicians to do their
jobs and carry on their responsibilities to their constituents. To allow
destructive persons to use money and influence to win these seats and then
destroy people’s lives was inexcusable. In my opinion it is irresponsible to
let out-right criminals to rip us off. It is negligence to let bigots destroy
people’s lives. We owe at least some attempts, even if we don’t succeed, to try
and take part in these elections.
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