Hunter S. Thompson:
How many more of these goddam elections are we going to have to write off as lame but ‘regrettably necessary’ holding actions? And how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils? I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing, this year, is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.
[Update] On an up note, Chris Bowers won a seat on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee in a write in campaign yesterday. Chris mostly hates me so I expect some sort of putative action coming my way in the near future, but I’m happy for the guy nevertheless. The revolution isn’t always sexy. Getting heavily involved with the official organs of the party at the local or state level is one hell of a way to shake things up a little.
