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I honestly don’t think it matters who wins the election. Like all elections in the modern era, real choices are never provided. The politicians and the media concentrate on “faux issues” designed to create the appearance of an intense debate, meanwhile the pressing issues of our times are decided by connected elites behind closed doors. On these issues, the politicians are in complete agreement. The system is rigged to ensure that only corporate tools can rise to the level of “Actor in Chief.”
Take any issue of substance. Try to spot the difference of opinion between Obama and Romney: trade policy, the unaccountable Federal Reserve, the gulag prison system, the war on drugs, military spending, NSA surveillance, the destruction of civil liberties, banking regulations, gerrymandering, the role of international banking institutions like the World Bank and the IMF, Israel, energy policy, the wars, drone strikes…the list goes on I can assure you.
If you’re an intellectually enslaved partisan, you’re already probably grasping at straws, trying to justify your position choosing the “lesser of two evils.” The differences between the two parties on these issues is barely visible, and yet we somehow feel justified picking sides. Even judicial appointments, the final plea for party unity, has lost its credibility. They are not looking out for you.
To quote Ralph Nader:
What is the breaking point? The criminal war of aggression in Iraq? The escalation of the war in Afghanistan? Forty-five thousand people dying a year because they can’t afford health insurance? The hollowing out of communities and the movement of jobs to fascist and communist regimes overseas that know how to put the workers in their place? There is no breaking point. And when there is no breaking point, you do not have a moral compass.I won’t be voting for either major party, but I have to accept that one of them will win the presidential election. So who should I prefer?
Part of me wants Romney to win. The left might find new energy with which to oppose him in the event of crippling austerity measures (which are likely to happen either way). Still, pitting the parties against each other to try and preserve what little freedoms we have left has never really worked in the past, and it’s a bit foolish to think it’ll work now.
Another part of me hopes Obama wins. He deserves to win. He deserves to watch the country’s economy disintegrate below his feet. As the floor beneath him falls away, he’ll stare into the 10th circle of hell, a special place reserved for bankers and politicians who enable their destructive deeds. He’ll be forced to accept history’s universal condemnation for his barbarous acts.
If your intention was to turn the United States into an Orwellian police state, you could not do a better job than President Obama. He has claimed the power to kill American citizens simply because he accuses them of being terrorists. There is no judicial review, no possibility of parole, you will not see a lawyer or your family again. For a mere “belligerent act,” you can be detained indefinitely in a cell, forgotten, never again to see the light of day.
In classic dictatorial fashion, he has attempted to expand the reach of the empire by engaging in undeclared wars without the permission of the people (Congress). And we haven’t even touched on his unwillingness to enforce the law with regard to the criminal banking class. However, if you attempt to expose the power elite’s abuse of the system, like Thomas Drake or Bradley Manning, you’re likely to face the full fury of government power. To date, the Obama administration has indicted six individuals under the Espionage Act, more than all other administrations combined.
Mitt Romney may be an aspiring murderer and gangster for fascism, but Barack Obama is a murderous gangster for fascism. He deserves to feel the universal condemnation that will come to him when the economy collapses. We won’t make it to 2016 before we are forced to deal with the world’s debt problems.
When I was growing up, there used to be an expression tossed around between people whenever politics was discussed: ”They’re all crooks.” It was a conciliatory statement, and usually got a few nods from around the room and often a few chuckles. Today, that statement is still common, but the chuckles are gone. Instead of being accompanied by slight laughter, there’s a sadness that comes with it. It’s not funny anymore.
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Sean Kerrigan is a freelance journalist and occasional blogger concentrating on new media, finance, and politics. He has written for several daily and weekly newspapers including the Bucks County Courier Times. He is also the author of Corporatocracy: An Introduction to the New American Government.
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7 comments:
You had some credibility until you came out with . . .
"Part of me wants Romney to win. The left might find new energy with which to oppose him in the event of crippling austerity measures (which are likely to happen either way). Still, pitting the parties against each other to try and preserve what little freedoms we have left has never really worked in the past, and it’s a bit foolish to think it’ll work now.
Another part of me hopes Obama wins. He deserves to win. He deserves to watch the country’s economy disintegrate below his feet. As the floor beneath him falls away, he’ll stare into the 10th circle of hell, a special place reserved for bankers and politicians who enable their destructive deeds. He’ll be forced to accept history’s universal condemnation for his barbarous acts."
The fact that you could want either one of them to win invalidates pretty much everything else you were complaining about. Oh well, at least you aren't voting. I hope.
The elections are fixed. The outcome has already been determined. But if you are going to vote, try either Libertarian or Green Party. At least there, you have an illusion of choice.
Only "purists" whose goal is their own ideological purity dismiss the choices in life that are in fact between 2 (or more) evils. If your car is out of control and the choice is to hit a tree or a child, you choose the option, which will be destructive, that produces the least harm.
Likewise, if Obama's war crimes are in the thousands of civilian killings, Bush's in the
hundreds of thousands and Hitler's in the tens of millions, tho all are evil, there is clearly a lesser evil (and what is the tally when considering that Obama has ended one war and is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan?).
I have always registered a protet vote by voting for a third party, usually unreported and totally ignored; this year, I am voting all Democrat, as payback for Republicans' voter suppression of Democrats. I am choosing the man I think who will do the least harm. A vote this year for an irrelevant 3d party is a vote for the greatest evil, in my view.
We must not remember that among his achievements Obama has done many wrong things. But the chances for war, and ending healthcare for 30 million Americans, are much greater with Romney.
Therefore, in full awareness that the lesser evil is still evil, I am using my judgement to choose the least harmful candidate.
You may cynically say both parties are equally evil, but I disagree and I will not surrender my right to an effective vote in order to stroke my ideological and moral ego. I am better than you: I do not support evil. Boycotting the election or throwing away your vote (I have voted 3d party for 50 yrs!) this year on a 3d party, is one way to enable the most evil party to win.
Sometimes life present tough choices, with no pure or even satisfactory options. But we always choose the path of reducing harm, and that includes choosing the lesser of two evils.
Vote, then work like hell to promote your agenda because only the people, citizen activists, can force a broken system to change. This is the great lesson of modern history, from Ghandi's overthrow of Empire to Dr. King's ending over 500 years of legal oppresssion to the overthrow of Marcos in the Phillipines to the overthrow of Mubarak.
Voting is your fundamental right; do not voluntarily surrender or waste it. Use it to prevent the greater evil or to protest the lack of positive options, but do not fall prey to the cynical "voting is for suckers" argument which is more effective than any voter suppression tactic when it comes to nullifying the right to vote.
Vote early and vote often.
Dale
and look both ways before you cross the street . . . and eat your vegtables . . . and pray to God so you don't go to Hell . . . Dale is just another bullshitter. DON'T VOTE! it's useless.
Protest REpublican voter suppression by voting straight Democratic ticket. A 3d party vote is personally satisfying, but it won't even be reported. Symbolic protest or payback for voter suppression tactics? Or just self-suppress and boycott?
If you do not choose "the lesser evil," you allow the greater evil to prevail. In the case of bad choices, it is necessary to choose the least bad.
In this case, that means the Democrats....and then work like crazy to change the system: end corporate personhood (ie unlimited secret money dominating politics) and re-instate Glass-Steagall, to separate the casinos from the commercial banks and take the taxpayer off the hook for reckless gambles by hedge funds, etc.
If you want to help Romney return to the Bush policies, vote symbolically for change or just vote Romney or just don't vote. All 3 benefit Romney and the Republicans.
After 50 years of voting 3d party, this year, to help the Repub voter suppression tactic to fail, I am voting straight Democratic ticket. Don't let the cynics (all parties are evil; all evils are equal, not voting is the only course for the purist) persuade you to self-surrender your right to vote. And don't let moral purity get in the way of your actual ethical imperative: vote for the least harmful party, the "lesser evil."
When all effective choices (3d parties are not in contention this time around) involve "evil," it is morally required to choose the least evil course and then work to fix it.
Dale
Wow Dale has somehow masterfully shown us how to vote our way out of this mess through the same system that created it and it only took him 50 years. Well the system is rigged Dale and no one cares to hear your asinine assumptions when the plan is to put you and your loved ones in a FEMA camp to be reeducated slaves. This lesser evil crap is always more evil with a little sugar on it or in your case Dale, high fructose corn syrup with a hint of aspartame.
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