My Yearly Donation

[yesthattom]

I just made my yearly donation to the DNC. $50.

I feel a little dirty.

However, I also realize that the GOP gets 10x the donations that the DNC gets. Amazingly enough, if the 1/4 most liberal population of the US donated just $10 a year to the DNC, we would have enough (about 1 billion with a "B") to win every election and never need any corporate donations. We could out-green the Green Party.

So, I've donated enough for the 4 other people that didn't. What's your story?

Comments

[geminigirl]

Simply put, I don't make enough to give. Even $10. I don't blame anything but my job/lifestyle choice for that. The DNC, HRC, NCSF, none of them get anything from me, in terms of financial support.

Instead, I give time. I volunteer for campaigns. I make phone calls. I lobby.

I applaud you for giving money when I can't. But not everyone who wants to can.

[cos]

I'm sketchy on the DNC, I've been donating to Howard Dean instead. If he becomes the nominee, then I'll consider supporting the DNC as well. Last year it certainly looked like the Democrats were just trying to be Republicans and doing a poor job, though they're getting better now.

If you wanna support Dean, BTW, make a donation with 1 cent extra. They're counting donations of $.01 to see how much is coming in via Internet publicity / word of mouth.

[krikket.livejournal.com]

While I can't see how things would be any worse under Gore than Bush... I can't support him either. I need to be faithful to the canidates that I believe in, even if they won't win. Forget spoiling the election -- you can't spoil tainted meat..

No offence. But that is my story.

[jss]

What geminigirl said, except I blame the economy instead of my job/lifestyle choice.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

S'ok! You aren't in the top 33% most liberal part of the population. :-)

By the way... I've been enjoying your updates about Pink Pistols. When my gun-totting co-workers try to scare me I reply with anecdotes about PP. It terrifies them a heck of a lot more than they scare me. ;-)

[geminigirl]

I joke sometimes that my job is a lifestyle choice. I'm a social worker-I do HIV/STD/Substance Abuse prevention with adolescents. It's more about living on the pittiance I make than it is having an extravagant lifestyle.

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

While I'm considering your suggestion, I have to concur a bit. I consider myself moderate, always have. And the democratic party is a little bit to the right of me, most of the time.

It's unfortunate that we don't *have* any actual liberal-representative party, with crazy left wing views to balance the crazy right wing views of the GOP.

Even still, as right-leaning as the Democratic party has become, it's perhaps all we've got to prevent a complete collapse to extremism -- if it's not too late.

[beowabbit]

Thanks for nudging me; I made a donation a week or so ago.

As far as Howard Dean goes (responding to another poster above), he sounds considerably better than average among the Democratic candidates, but my highest priority at this point is to get the person who's systematically destroying this country, it's civil liberties, it's international power and prestige and goodwill, and its economy out of there. If Howard Dean can do that, fabulous! If somebody else looks like they have a better shot in the general election, I'll wish Howard Dean good luck in 2008. Honestly, I'm not sure I wouldn't support Nixon over the person in that office now. A few years ago I would have thought that malice was a much more serious problem than incompetence; now that we have both at once, I don't think that any more.