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[i.livejournal.com]

Of course it doesn't, which is why we need more people like you voting in primaries, but you must understand (and probably do), that a multi-party system like Canada, Australia, Britain, or numerous European nations is no better. The compromise of principles simply happens after the election instead of before. There are 350 million people in this country. If our government works properly, none of us get everything we want. I see a huge difference between Democratic and Republican administrations, and I find it hard to believe that you don't.

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

I am not suggesting compromise is never appropriate. However, the Republican Party was America's right wing conservative party. The national Republican Party has moved to ultra-right wing conservative extremes. In order to stay close to the middle the Democratic Party has also moved far to the right which means the middle is also far to the right.

This is why Democrats in 2012 are totally fine with indefinitely detaining American citizens and "only" killing a few pre-determined Americans without a trial. The right wing would rather kill them all. I guess the far left extreme would be to fund schools and hospitals and nice hug friendly things in the countries terrorists come from so would-be-but-not-yet-terrorist individuals would be happy and love American instead of wanting to blow us up. The former middle of the road response would have been to follow the constitution and arrest them and hold trials for them quickly and let them go if they are found innocent and kill them or imprison them forever if found guilty.

Compromise between reasonable people in tax policy or where to fund infrastructure is fine. In cases such as these, when human lives, civil rights, and the constitution is at stake compromising with right wing lunatics is totally inappropriate and that is why I will not be voting for the Democratic Party.

[i.livejournal.com]

I suppose we'll just have to muddle through without your vote then. I plan to vote for the president and for the Democratic candidates for Senate and Congress in my area to give him the most liberal support possible and move the compromise to the left. I don't know about you, but I think Carmona is a hell of a lot better candidate than Flake for the Senate.

[trog.livejournal.com]

This amounts to blaming the victim. You're asking this guy to compromise his principles and vote for people who are complete louts just because they're not the other party's complete louts. That heinous, dude. Good for this guy making a principled stand. The lesser of two evils is still evil and voting for the lesser of two evils is how the US got into the shitty situation it's in.

This guy is not the problem. He's not at fault. He's a victim, the system is rotten, it won't be changed by more of the same, and trying to convince a principled person to vote is very similar to trying to convince a battered spouse to stay in an abusive relationship "for the children". HELL NO!