I like his basic personality, heric, his intelligence, his dignified demeanor, his articulate way of speaking, his willingness to discuss things reasonably, and his general style. Is that not good enough reason to like a person?

A wrongful cause can include in its ranks many very good people. I regard America's imperial policies in the Middle East to be a wrongful cause....but I am quite sure that a great many good people are serving in that cause, most of them unwittingly, and I do not dislike them as people. I just disagree with the cause they are working for, that's all.

My form of passive resistance is to not buy most of the consumer lifestyle the $ySStem is selling, and not to spend much of my time tuning in to its sales pitch. I don't watch TV. I don't listen to commercial radio. I don't buy drugs (legal or otherwise). I don't give my money or my support to the mainstream political parties. I don't live in a perpetual state of debt (which is what I am tacitly encouraged to do).

As such, I am quite subversive to the system, but without attacking it in any direct fashion. I just don't consent to dance its little dance, that's all.

I do vote. But I do that mainly just for fun. I find it an amusing exercise to engage in on the rare occasions when it comes along. If I had had a chance to vote for Dennis Kucinich, I certainly would have done so without hesitation, though. I consider him to be a voice of sanity in a desert of fantasy and denial.