Screw you, DNC. You stole my vote, so you get nothing from me.

[knitter4democracy]

Yeah, I voted today in the worthless Michigan primary. I voted for Kucinich, mostly because I'm a liberal, he's a liberal, and he at least seems to give a crap about our state.

I know, I know, our dumbf*** party higher ups caused the whole thing. Yadda, yadda, yadda. At least the GOP came up with a better compromise and only took away half of our delegates. What did the DNC do? They kicked us while we were already down and took our votes away. I am a deliberately disenfranchised voter. The Democrats took away the power of my vote. The party that has lost due to election fraud, the party of the people, the party that keeps sending me crap asking for money--they took away my vote.

Michigan's in a depression and has been for the last few years. Our unemployment is higher than it was during the Great Depression. We have one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation. We're hemorraghing population and will lose at least one House Rep the next time around, maybe two. And now we don't matter at all.

The Republicans seem to care more about us than the Dems. How's that for irony?! They had a debate here, have had fundraisers and rallies here, have had small meetings with real voters here, and have ads all over the place. Their campaign machinery is in place and running. Ours? We have none. The DNC doesn't care about Michigan. We're expendable.

We are going to lose Michigan in the GE. It used to be that, if you won Detroit, you won the state. With job and population losses, that might not be true anymore. The rest of the state is red. Kerry won four counties in Michigan last time. That's it. This time, four might not be enough.

Would someone like to explain to me how the hell I'm supposed to get people to vote for the Dem nominee?! Seriously--how am I supposed to explain to undecideds, independents, union members, moderate Republicans, and rank-and-file Dems why they should vote for our nominee. Our nominee didn't fight for Michigan when it counted, so why should we vote for that person? Our nominee didn't give two thoughts about throwing us to the dogs, so why should we give that person any money, any time, any help other than a vote?

I'm not giving a dime to the DNC again. I've never seen my precinct so dead as it was today, and I was only number 49 at 12:30. Normally they're in the triple digits by then. One hundred fifty voted Republican--this in a Dem precinct. We're so far in the hole behind the GOP for the GE because of this mess that we've probably already lost.

Michigan's dying. That's why our leadership (stupid morons that they are) played chicken and tried to get us moved up to count. We get only eighty cents on the dollar we send to Washington, and yet we're counted on to send our soldiers to Iraq. We're counted on to vote Dem by a party that doesn't give a shit about us. We're expected to roll over and thank everyone who's kicking us and spitting on us. As proud as most Michiganders are, I don't see it happening this year.

Thanks, DLC and Dr. Dean and Sen. Levin and Gov. Granholm. You just turned our state red.