how exactly can a four year old be too precious? Seriously. Give it up dude. You proclaim the thread to be dead because you shot yourself in the foot big time and you have no way to claim moral superiority now. You know very well I'm not sanctimonious just as you know that four year olds, be they american iraqi malawian, are not expendable - I just took you by surprise by being entrenched in and just as knowledgable as you pretend to be about leftist politics but confessing to be honestly confused about what to do about this election.

It seems it has become more important for you to condemn than discuss. You need to spend WAY less time tooting your own horn and do some actual work to make a difference. Or is your CHOICE to be "an artist living on the fringe" enough to absolve you from anything more productive than snide remarks and occasionally regurgitating things you read on Z. You are not a martyr, you are part of the problem. Face it and do something about it. You are just as dead as the thread darlin'.