Vote for Dennis, vote early and often

I mean why not vote as often as you can for Dennis? People do not take him as seriously as he should be taken and yet, he is the only one running for president who has a long list of ideas and proposals that match exactly what most people say they want in a democratic candidate.
My biggest fear is that we will all say this mantra over and over and we are even now beginning to see it in the media too (e.g., Rebecca Traister's piece in Salon.com) but to be honest there is something that Dennis offers that this mantra does not express: Dennis is truly one of us. He is all those weird and yet acceptable guys who have made it and been able to do things for people and put his life on the line to do it.
Beyond that kind of sustained presence in the world of politics, a world none of us would want to be in, Dennis is the kind of person who is not swayed by the passing fads of what is right now but may be of only transient interest and truly only of interest to win elections.
I have been receiving reams of emails (I know that is not literally true) from the Clinton Senate office informing me of how much she has been doing for the state of New York and the country in this past legislative session. Mrs. Clinton would be a much better long-term Senator from my state than she will ever be a president. Not only because she loves, truly loves to put together these tedious but necessary positions of the most mundane aspects of life but because what she could teach the younger senators coming up about it they will not learn anywhere else.
Unfortunately, she is not aware of her own strengths and must pursue the presidency with a kind of obsessive need that matches the kind of power grabbing this country needs to rid itself of.
The reason I am in favor of seeing a Kucinich presidency has more to do with who he does not represent, who he does not favor and who he cannot be rather than who he knows and who is giving him the kind of coverage he rightly deserves.
For now, that is something all of us need to begin to think about. Dennis Kucinich represents a counter-narrative to the stories the media present as to who is the lead and why. Kucinich is not about pretending to be a Robin Hood manque, he is in fact a man of strong principles who looks at the world as it is and says that it cannot stay this way.
That is why he is a threat to the people who support the Clintons and the Obamas and the Edwards, etc. It is because he does not take that kind of money and he is not in any way thinking in the same ways that they are. That is what I mean by the fact that he offers a counter-narrative. Think about that. Think about what it feels like not to think about who has the best chance of winning but who should win because of what he will do to change the ways in which the world is run.
That is the ticket as far as I am concerned. The ticket is we need someone to run this country and turn it radically around from the ways in which Bush and company have been involved in directing it.
Spend some time reading lots of political theory now and you will begin to see that there is another way of life that is more gratifying than what every other one of the democratic candidates offer. Everyone of them but Kucinich see the world as it is right now and just want to tinker with it, Dennis wants to radically alter it and that is why they won't talk to him. He sees what is and knows it is wrong. But he says it in the best ways possible.
Vote for Dennis and vote often and vote early and tell all your friends to do the same. He is after all, our last best chance at changing the world.