Did you vote for George McGovern?
Would you have voted for George McGovern instead of Richard Nixon if you had the chance?
If you had the opportunity would you pull the lever for someone you were fairly certain would lose rather than voting for a criminal like Nixon?
After all, everyone knew Richard Nixon was going to win.
After all, Nixon was evil.
Wouldn’t that be throwing away your vote if you voted for George McGovern?
How could anyone vote for someone they knew was evil?
Millions of people voted for George McGovern in 1972 even though they were fairly certain he was going to lose.
Those millions of Americans knew that casting a vote for someone they knew was evil was the wrong thing to do. Politically. Morally. Anyway you want to think about it.
Those Americans didn’t stay at home on election day. They went out and cast their vote against evil even though they were fairly certain they wouldn’t win. They knew they had to fight the evil. They knew you always fight evil.
Once again Americans are faced with a choice. The Democratic/Republican Party claims it is choice between the lesser of two evils. The Democratic/Republican Party is lying.
What do the Democrats and the Republicans have in common?
Let’s take a quick look.
Both parties agree the United State should continue waging war against lots of countries in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Both parties agree that thieving scum corporations should be bailed out of their financial difficulties while private citizens are hung out to dry.
Both parties agree that the for-profit medical insurance industry should be propped up by legislation which supports the vampire private medical insurance industry.
Both parties agree that trade agreements, like NAFTA, are a good thing even though the end result is massive job loss in the U.S.
Both parties think new oil pipelines running across the heartland of America are just swell.
Both parties agree that the President of the United States should be given legal authority of life and death over every individual in the world.
Both parties agree that self-confessed orderers of torture should not be prosecuted, and they should be allowed to conduct national book tours where they brag about their war crimes against defenseless prisoners.
The list is quite possibly endless.
When you vote for the Republican/Democratic Party you are endorsing all of the above.
You have a choice the Democratic/Republican Party doesn’t want you to consider.
You do not have to vote for evil.
Remember George McGovern.
Vote Green.
Peace.
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Jill Stein?
Harvard educated physician and recent city jail inmate . . . .
Vote Green! Either way a Harvard man gets the job . . . .
Afraid she might call out the major candidates for bullshit?
Let her talk. What have we got to fear? Why shut her up? She's gonna lose anyway right? So why silence her?
:-) / r
80 million voters for Obama got betrayed royally. How many of those 80 million can't embrace reality? Still trapped in the 5 stages of grief. Clinging to media-hype sentimentality!
The Dem Convention is like a cotton candy manufacturer, puffing up non-substance with mostly hot air. Wow, Obama's wife talks nicely of him. Obama speaks nicely of so many and they him. Obama bows and takes credit for what he doesn't deserve.
This is a scene of party hacks trying to stir up loyalty when their faux-champion has done so little for so many and so much for so opportunistic few!
But what the hey. Ya gotta do what MSNBC tells you to do, right?
And tonight people are saying Obama cares about the middle class. Bullshit. But no one is hypocritical enough to mention the poor and working class. Don't even mention those invisible ones. Middle class. He and Dem Party and the Repub Party have devastated the middle class, not to mention much of the globe. But what the hey, that won't come up either.
I'm with Stein and the Greens. Want to be part of the solution, not the problem to quote an old slogan.
best, libby
I have been and am opposed to all the wars we've been in since WWII. The financial mess in Wall Street is out of control and is all about greed. We do not need private insurance companies in the health care business. NAFTA is a step for us to be partners in the world rather than a dominant bully superpower when it comes to trade. It is also naive in so many ways. Big oil is willing to destroy our precious environment in order to make big money. And no, the Prez should never have authority to kill anyone in the world. So we agree on a lot Peter.
And I'm proudly voting for Obama. It's a dirty and hard world that we live in and he's miles above Romney when it comes to trying to move us forward in a progressive fashion.
I don't think this election is nearly as clear cut as you're trying to make it. You're right about some of the bad things, and have a lot of valid points, but as a gay man, there's a very clear obvious difference in the candidates to me. And I'm interested to know why that civil rights issue, along with women's rights, isn't important enough to you to see the necessity of voting for Obama. I'm not trying to harrass you, this is something I've been trying to figure out, why so many of my fellow radical/liberal citizens don't get that, and figure you may be able to help me understand.
Rep winning everyone will vote for them. Obama's campaign is one of total fear. If you are opposed to an Executive Branch which claims the legal right to execute anyone on the planet, it's time to stand up and be counted by voting Green.
when the nation is ruled 'by the people,' politicians will become servants, not masters.
I did vote for McGovern and so did most of my friends. But I am voting for Obama even though he has blood on his hands. What US President could possibly claim not to have? Maybe we are not looking at a lifeblood vampire, but Romney will wholeheartedly suck the livelihoods from uncountable millions of your fellow citizens. No, thank you.
McGovern, like Romney, was a political bumblefuck, and he deserved to lose. More than that, though, the economy was good just before the election, and incumbents don't lose with the economy is good.
At this point, it's all about 2020. Obviously Stein isn't gonna win this election, and she's not gonna win in 2016, but maybe...just maybe, like Nader, she can get enough name recognition to have her ideas heard. If enough people like what they hear (and, how could they like it less than what they hear from the GOP or DNP ), AND there is some wacky crisis that damages both of the major parties, she, or whoever else the Green Party runs, MIGHT have a shot.
If not, either get a gun and start a revolution or quit whining.
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-R-