Are we all disgusted with this election yet? Every four years it gets to this point where I can't stand it anymore. This time it was supposed to be different.

When I first voted they'd just lowered the age from 21 to 18 and I was 20 and McGovern was running against Nixon. I even worked for McGovern in the city I lived in then. It was hard to believe they reelected the Dick. Later who could believe they'd elect Reagan, and then that disaster, Bush I, and then Clinton, the jerk, and then BushII. Jesus, how fundamentally broken can a Democracy be.

Unless, of course, it's not a democracy at all.

This year, my daughter, who turned 18 yesterday, will vote for the first time. AND, for the first time since that McGovern race, there is a Democrat she might actually be enthusiastic for. That's great. But look at what's gone wrong so far in this campaign.

The race is neck and neck. Obama has squandered a double digit lead! They should be mopping the floor with Palin-McWhatsHisName. The stupid Democratic national party ALWAYS does this. They don't know how to win because they don't want to address the issues. It's all a "horse race". The function of the DLC and the DNC is to make sure that any progressive instinct a candidate has is harnessed to serve the interest of the corporate donors to... the DLC and DNC. I mean, Joe Biden?? Give me a fucking BREAK! How in the hell do they expect to get a decent, self respecting leftist like myself to vote for a ticket with the senator from the Bank of America? Every day since the "convention" Obama has moved, or been made to move, to the corporate center. Not that the guy was a Lefty in the first place. Every bit as much as Clinton, the man has played his cards in a way that "preserved his political viability".

Here's the thing, Democrats. That's the way you play the corporate political game. It's is definitely NOT the way you change the way the country works, or is governed, or operates its economy. The party must move left, occupy a well defined position, and present that as a logically coherent program with a definite objective.

For some of us, this "objective" could be described as Revolution, which, honestly, has meant different things at different times. But the point is that a real popular front could rally around a left position that didn't necessarily proclaim itself as revolutionary... or at least not any more than the average shampoo commercial does.

Bottom line. If the Democratic lead is within the margin of error they loose the election. 2000 was stolen in Florida. We still don't know who won Ohio in 2004. To beat these guys, you've got to have a double digit lead going into the election. It's not like its a fair vote, after all.