"It ain’t over till it’s over"

Not me, if I was an American citizen! I am, in ideal theory, completely against voting for any political offices, but make well considered rare exceptions in practice. This one is a major one!

And in this case conscience is essential. Voting against your conscience is only allowed in a situation where it would bring about a change. Voting for either Bush or Kerry will not bring about ANY change really. Voting for Badnarik might bring one, and, if not, will at least place a bigger protest sign in front of the White House rose garden, thus having a cooling effect on all that madness so far. It will prepare and set a better terrain for the Libertarian Party next time. Already this year we could witness with joy an already great improvement compared to earlier attempts and efforts. If it does not bring a change now, what's the difference then with the other two? You really can choose what conscience dictates in this situation. The madness of the duopoly will no doubt continue and increase, unless Badnarik is elected of course or gets a landslide result to which you can and should contribute in a week from today. You Americans have internalized this two party system too much. And that helps to eternalize it.

I suggest you read Don Parrish, writing along a similar line.

Some people erroneously think that being and staying principled can only lead to defeat in this world as it is. Baloney! Spread by those who have an interest to ours opposed, that we should not win. Just think, as an example, of the huge success of the gay liberation movement. Do you really think that this would have come about, if they had continued to make all those many little cowardly compromises with the situation as it is, as it was, when they finally, in 1969, in Big Apple's Greenwich Village, in Christopher Street's Stonewall Inn, started to become courageous, totally principled and uncompromising, reclaiming their natural rights and self-ownership. You have to take what is owed to you. Hardly anyone will give it to you, certainly no politician or bureaucrat, if they are not forced by the people in self-defence.

The heading of this editorial is borrowed from Jonathan David Morris's column of this week, with that intriguing title The Curse of the Curse of the Bambino. It's about baseball, not politics, just about life. As it looks superficially. A maybe needed breather this week before that final stormy attack. But along some funny elegant sentences there is deep meaning in it, also maybe political. Enjoy it, then get ready for what can still be done during the rest of the week and, during the weekend, visit your aunt and convince her to vote for Badnarik. She certainly finds him snazzy.

PS: Not maybe, it is political, about the Badnarik campaign even, in a way an allegory of all I say above. And I am sure that Libertarians don't have any faked orgasms at all! ;-)