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In reply to the discussion: How Many Here Love The Fact That We've Gone From Democratic Base... To "Far Left" ??? [View all]Raksha
(7,167 posts)After a lifetime of voting a straight Democratic ticket (starting in 1968), I finally decided I was through voting for the proverbial "lesser of two evils." I voted for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, and I don't regret it for one minute.
I stayed away from DU during the election season because I knew I couldn't announce my intentions here, but that didn't make me any less determined. I just could not bring myself to vote for Obama a second time. He's a bought and paid for corporatist, and he proved it over and over again during his first term. Of course I'm in California so there was no chance of a strong third-party showing throwing the election to Mitt Romney, but I really think I would have done it anyway. The only reason I kept my Democratic Party registration is so I can vote in the Democratic primaries.
NO WAY will I vote for Hillary in 2016. She's a DLC corporatist through and through, and her time has come and gone. From now on I vote for Progressives, not necessarily Democrats.