Separation anxiety?

Hardly. I've never been connected to or even known any of these folks -- unless you want to count Bobby Rush, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis and Luis Gutterriez.

Let's see...I voted for Shirley Chisholm, (D-NY) first Black woman to run for President in a Dem primary back in Brooklyn the 1970s, first time I ever voted. Then I voted CP and SWP once or twice. In 1980, I worked and voted for Barry Commoner and the Citizen Party over Carter and Reagan. I worked for Jesse Jackson and Jerry Brown in their primaries, but never voted for Clinton either time. I worked for the New Party, helping to get Ted Thomas of ACORN elected alderman. I did vote for Gore, even though I financially supported the Greens, but Nader pissed me off when he started playing footsie with Pat Buchanan on protectionism. Finally, I voted for Kerry as a protest against Bush, but I never endorsed him, instead repeatedly pointing out that he was from another faction of the imperialists. If Nader was on the ballot in IL, a 'safe state', he would have got my vote, but the Greens could never get it together here.

So you see, even though I'm a picky voter, I've been all over the map over the years, since we've only had weak or piss-poor choices. As a result, I know first hand all the weaknesses of third parties, abstaining from voting AND working with the Dems. I know where too many bodies are buried to have very many illusions about any side in these debates.

As for the big corporations, I've known they owned the two parties probably since before you knew there was such a thing as a corporation. That's why, in the preceding post, I said we lived in a polyarchy, not a democracy.

No, my only anxiety these days is over the terrible suffering in Iraq brought on by the Bush/Neocon war and by the danger of the rise of theocratic fascism, here and abroad.

That's why I'm not surrendering ANY weapons, however limited they may be.