{"id":2682,"date":"2012-01-04T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2012-01-04T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:33:43","slug":"%e2%80%98cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I complain about how crappy a President Obama is and how I probably won\u2019t vote for him unless he starts acting real progressive real fast, I get people telling me that not voting for Obama is a vote for the Republican. Then they tell me that I am \u201ccutting off my nose to spite my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well that is a graphic analogy, but if that is the analogy they are going to use, I guess I\u2019ll stick with it. Expanding from that analogy, it seems my nose has cancer and so it would be stupid to not cut off my nose to save my face. Your nose as cancer too, but you are probably going to die because you refuse to cut it off to save face.<\/p>\n<p>Politics is not a horse race in which you win if you back the winning horse. Politics also isn\u2019t about our gang colors. I\u2019m a Democrat because I agree more with their stated platform than I do with the Republican platform. But if there is an individual candidate who I strong disagree with, I am not going to vote for them because we wear the same gang colors.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe any politician is entitled to my vote. No politician owns my vote either. Every politician has to work hand to earn my vote. Obama isn\u2019t doing that and he doesn\u2019t get my vote by default.<\/p>\n<p>Obama supporters have to stop blaming the victim. If I don\u2019t vote for Obama and he loses, it isn\u2019t my fault; it is his fault for not earning my vote. If he was a better President, he would have earned my vote. I value my vote, but it seems that Obama doesn\u2019t. He seems to think he is entitled to my vote or that he can use fear to terrorize me into giving my vote away.<\/p>\n<p>Then his supporters tell me that we lost a lot of seats in 2010 because Democrats like me didn\u2019t vote Democrat (although for the record, I did vote Democrat). To this, I point out that the Party hasn\u2019t learned their lesson. They are going to do the same thing they did in 2010 and they are expecting a different result. 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