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=> Re: love that Nader...

Re: love that Nader...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, October 3 2011, 14:45:29 (UTC)
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"The truth is that voting is bullshit. As the late Father Phil Berrigan said: "if voting could change anything, it would be outlawed".

If voting could change anything Obama would have gotten us out of Iraq, out of Gitmo and universal health care would have been implemented...Obama "surprised" his base by caving in to the Repubs time and again...he HAD to. His biggest financial contributors are Wall Street crooks.

Before ever getting his or her name on a ballot, in an election booth, a potential candidate must sell out....there is no choice....and if it isn't abundantly clear that he's sold out, then it will become clear when he or she gets into office.

Nader was shut out of the debates by decision of a private corporation which handles the presidential debates...he then decided to attend, just attend, as a citizen, but they wouldn't give him a ticket....so then they found a college student whose father had gotten a ticket and the kid gave it to Nader...plus Nader was invited on for an interview with Fox....when he arrived at the event he was met by police who said his ticket didn't matter because the private corporation decided to make his ticket invalid...he was given a choice, either leave or get arrested....Nader explained to the cops that what they were doing was not right because as state troopers they were not supposed to be at the beck and call of a private corporation, where no crime had been committed.

the vote? Why? Why put our rubber stamp to what is essentially a non-democratic process? Would it be democracy for private corporations to put up their candidates, all of whom basically toe the same line, and then ask us to choose which one? We laughed at Saddam because in his elections he was the only one running...all the citizens could do was vote yes or no....and who dared vote no? We get candidates who are mirror images of themselves..well, maybe the image is slightly different, but their essence is the same, and all we get to do is pick which one. That isn't democracy.



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