Casual answer.

Not that I owe you any explanations, but since I really don't care anyway: I have all this time on my hands right now because I'm gainfully unemployed right now. I write here (and in a couple other places online), because it is an easy way to get my thoughts about these things in order. Some people use their daily journaling, I use internet chat forums.

It is fine if you think I'd be more productive according to your beliefs, working for political candidates.

But since my purpose for posting here isn't to do anything but participate in the chatter and maybe get some people thinking, instead of being atypical knee jerk reactionaries like the vast majority of you are, I don't agree with your assessment of how I should best spend my time.

Your absolutism is glaringly obvious. Your posts demonstrate your absolute belief that your way of thinking on the election is the one right way to think, Don. In my book, that is a hallmark of absolutist thinkers--that absolute power should be vested in your rulers, your party. Your absolutism is the absolutism of the Democratic party, and your preferred absolutist rulers are your men of this election season, John Kerry and John Edwards, and the Democratic Leadership Council that is backing them and holding the Democratic party in it's vise grip. You toe an absolutist party line. Bush must go, Kerry must win. That is the definition of absolutism.

Maybe you need to get out your dictionary and look up the word, Don.