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October 23, 2008
The socialist candidate for President
Here's a hint: it's not Barack Obama.
I was going over the sample ballot provided by the Hamilton County Election Commission a few days before I voted, and I noticed a name I truly didn't recognize in the list of "independent" candidates that follow the two major party contenders. Moore. Brian Moore.
Well, it turns out that Brian Moore isn't a Monty Python-esque gag, but an actual candidate for President of the United States of America, and one that represents an actual political party. The Socialist Party USA is one of several parties with socialist platforms, and it tends to run a ticket on quite a number of states' ballots every four years.
So if you want to vote for a true socialist, vote Moore-Alexander. Even though Senators Obama and McCain have displayed what could be argued as mild(?) socialist tendencies in some of their votes from time to time, they are no match for the real socialism of these folks. They are truly and proudly anti-capitalist. Before you chime in with "voting for Obama is voting for a socialist," stop yourself, and remember Brian.
And please, Tennessee: do something about proper party labels. If there is a socialist on the ballot, I want to be warned about it. I don't want him or her masked by the impossibly vague "INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE." Independent could mean virtually anything. And it's demeaning to the hard work of party members in the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution parties, among others. Like Socialists. And the Boston Tea Party. (Really -- check out Charles Jay and Thomas Knapp.)
Elections , Presidential Elections | By joe lance | 10:53 PM