From game designer and author Greg Costikyan:
“Sometime in the 80s, I was living in Columbia University housing with my then-wife, who was studying for her MBA. A political worker came to the door, and asked us to make a donation to some political organization, I don’t recall which, to help fund the ‘fight against the radical right.’ Louise told him ‘but we are the radical right.’
Today, we have a president whose idea of cutting taxes is cutting them in such a way that the richest few percentage of the population gains almost all of the benefit; who has no compunction about leading the nation into a wholly unnecessary war, with no workable plan for how to manage the victory; whose administration consistently works to increase police powers and erode individual freedom; and whose party has been captured by fundamentalist Christian lunatics whose political agenda consists solely of oppressing women and those who make love in ways they don’t like.
It is patently clear that, today, the Republicans pose a far greater threat to American liberties than the Democrats.
I’m not of the ‘anything but Bush’ school. I could never bring myself to vote for someone who thinks censoring games is a good idea (Lieberman), seems to want to bring back the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Gephardt), or came to political prominence through irresponsible race baiting (Sharpton–I’m a New Yorker, and I assure you that I remember Tawana Brawley, not to mention Crown Heights).
Still, today, the United States is in the hand of a dim-witted Yalie frat boy who listens only to neocon nutcase advisers and has no clue how close we are to a hundred-year war between the Islamic world and the West–and if he did, might think it was a good idea, since that would resemble some of the predictions for the End Times.
If the Democrats wind up nominating Dean, Clark, Edwards, or Kerry, I will almost certainly wind up voting for someone other than the nominee of the Libertarian Party in the next presidential election–the first time I will have done so since I was old enough to vote.”
