debates

[Gordon Fitch]

Carl Remick:
> I'm afraid that I am going to wind up voting for Gore as the lesser of two 
> evils domestically; the race is too close to risk a protest vote for Nader.  
> But I will do this with great reluctance.  I think Gore presents the greater 
> risk in terms of cruise-missile adverturism.  Gore's "humanitarianism" is 
> liberalism at its red-in-tooth-and-claw worst.

I think you can feel fairly confident that the election will
not be decided by your single vote.  That being the case, I
recommend that you consider voting for someone not tainted by
promoting crimes against humanity.  Besides imperialism, I
refer to the Drug War and the prison-industrial complex.

Hidden in the word "vote" is the idea of vow or devotion, of
making a gift which binds the giver to the receiver.  There
are things and people to which one should not bind oneself if
one can avoid doing so; it is too depressing in both action
and recollection.