Same old same old.

I'd a helluva lot rather be a somewhat cynical and politically realistic live force inside the Democratic Party, doing everything I can do to steer it in the direction I think it should go than a starry-eyed idealist with not the foggiest idea of how to accomplish things other that to scream and yell and throw things and wind up in a jail cell with my eyes smarting from tear gas (or lying there in the morgue with a bullet in my chest and a tag on my toe), but with my "integrity" intact.

And rather than just sitting around on the outside ranting and raving about how the Democratic Party sucks, or pouring my energies into a third party candidate that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, I can accomplish a helluva lot more working inside the Democratic Party. At least it has a chance of winning in November and ousting Bush. And I don't have to accept the way the party is. I can do my damnedest to change it.

What does your integrity tell you to do? Do nothing but bitch and complain, go down with a lost cause, or actually do something that may fail, but at least it has a chance of accomplishing real change?

Don Firth