What I disagree with is inconsequential.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Three out of five of you are willing to sacrifice your beliefs to elect a politician.

Another one of you is willing to accept a politician for what he is.

What else are you willing to sacrifice? Your career? Your family? Your Constitutional rights?

What else are you willing to accept?

Democratic politicians will never take any of you seriously, you 80% of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, because you belittle yourselves.

You take a stand, but when push comes to shove, you are all on the ground.

Certain factions in certain other political parties know that they are needed as part of a larger coalition, and are ready to withhold their votes unless their needs, their demands are met. The world takes them seriously, because they have called bluffs and lay their cards on the table over and over again.

You guys? Pushovers, focused on winning elections, willing to sacrifice your core beliefs to do so, and wondering what bit you in the ass down the road.

The time has come for disagreements to have consequences.

There is no yesterday, there is no tomorrow, there is only today. If you think no one listens to you now, that your beliefs are inconsequential today, just wait until the election is over and the politician is in office.

The consequence of my disagreement?

My vote. I am withholding it.

I will never vote for John McCain, but I will take another road. I will find one.

And I strongly suggest if you ever want your beliefs to have weight, if you ever want to be taken seriously as citizens, do the same.

I am not suggesting that you withhold your vote, irrevocably.

A politician should earn your vote. Make him do just that.

Don't consider your beliefs inconsequential.

Don't learn to accept defeat and compromise.

Hold your ground, and hold on to your vote, until it is deserved.