Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils.

This entry is not telling anyone NOT to vote, even if the author can no longer fight the feeling that any continued support for the Democratic Party only legitimizes and prolongs the already centuries old genocides this country was founded on.