"Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations and careful study shows that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

However, if we leave the industrial countries with their present industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political party workers and send them off by rocketship to forever orbit the sun -- the result will be that as many world people as now will keep right on eating, possibly getting on a little better than before. This will remove all barriers to completely free world intercourse and thereby permit realization of enough for all."

-R. Buckminster Fuller from the Keynote Address at Vision '65

Usually, I vote after studying positions and reviewing candidates' records, but tomorrow I will vote a straight Democratic ticket. I have voted this way only twice before: the 2000 and 2004 elections.

I fully endorse Bucky's statement above, enticing us with its utopian vision across 4+ decades. So why am I voting straight Democrat? Why am I voting?

The Republicans have buried us under economic and social woes. They have chain-ganged us, red and blue and purple, shackling our collective ankles until we stand just a step away from being unable to move forward at all.

I'm voting straight Dem because until we remove the current crop of Republicans from office, we will never have a social environment conducive to the development of, nor even be able to afford, the spaceship necessary to send all politicians on that one-way journey Fuller describes so perfectly.