Don't Move to Canada , Move to Iowa
By David Swanson
Those desperate enough to consider moving to Canada to escape a nation headed by George W. Bush may want to consider an easier option that could deny Bush's Republican successor the presidency: moving to Iowa .
We spent upwards of $300 million trying to elect John Kerry ($241 million through the campaign, another $80 million through other organizations). We turned out every anti-Bush voter we could find. But there weren't enough pro-Kerry voters to put Kerry over the top. The majority of Americans said the country was headed in the wrong direction, but a majority of voters, or at least something close to it, voted for the incumbent. We didn't offer people a real choice. Kerry was a lousy candidate.
Both candidates supported an illegal war, corporate trade policies, private health insurance, the war on drugs, an ever-growing Pentagon, and an expanding prison industry. Kerry played to the Republican base, hunted ducks, and packed his stages with veterans, but he lost the election to rural voters, religious voters, and veterans, because they were Bush's base.
The Democratic base
