"Politics are about practicalities, not idealism."

I believe that statement only applies to Democrats who are hell bent on getting Bush out. Most of us who actually take the time to participate in the political process put our ideals before political expediency. That is what separates us from the professional politicians. This sort of cliche is the brother of another cliche professional politicians love to use, and that is "politics is about compromise".

"Getting Bush out has to be the top priority."

I have no problem with you making that your top political priority in 2004. But it isn't mine.

My top political priority in 2004 is to continue working against the tyrannical two party political system that is destroying our nation and doing profound damage to our world, to change what needs changing.

Social, political, economic, and cultural change doesn't come from within the establishment, in my experience. It comes when people agitate from outside the established system, to force the status quo to change. Towards that end, I work to change laws, people's driving habits, build grassroots movements to agitate for an end to the war on terrorism AND an end to the war on drugs AND an end to the war on the developing world, to exploit their resources at their expense.

In others words, I'm doing what I'm always doing to effect changes I believe will be for the good of all. Voting for president of the US is a very, very tiny part of that equation.