The Washington State caucuses are being held this Saturday, but I am informed that all they are going to do is choose delegates for the National Convention, and since I will be unable to go (fascinating experience though I'm quite sure it would be!!) there is hardly any point in my attending my neighborhood caucus, even though I usually do.

The primary here is on February 19th, and I have already received my ballot in the mail. Obviously they were printed some time ago, and several of the candidates on the ballot have since dropped out. Dennis Kucinich is still listed. Since this is a primary and not for the whole pot, I think I'll check his box. So I can still make a statement, but unless a whole batch of people do the same thing, it'll be sort of a hollow gesture.

When the national election comes along in November, it's all sliced-and-diced by then. We get what they want to give us.

Damned hard to change a system when it would have to be changed by those who benefit the most from it as it is.

Ptui!!

Don Firth