Before anybody gets into any debates about me "throwing away" my vote, I'd like to remind people that there are actually six major candidates running for the president of the United States and all of them are on at leas more than 30 ballots across the country. If you don't believe me, then check out this link:
http://www.votesmart.org/election_president.php
Cynthia McKinney represents to me, someone who is through with two-party politics and the incestuous relationship it upholds with corporate America. First, off the Green Party (McKinney's party affiliation), does not accept any corporate donations, as they do not believe that wealthy corporations and their strong interested of profit have the right to influence a political process. I agree with this. Both John McCain and Barak Obama have recieved many donations from coroporations, including but not limited to private health insurance corporations, big oil, credit card companies and cell phone companies.
The biggest problem I have with Barak Obama is his advocation of ending the war in Iraq by only escalalting the war in Afghanistan. His first priorities in foreign policy are militarisitc, not diplomatic. It sends shivers down my spine, when he openly applauds Israel, which has maintained the longest illegal military occupation in history, of the palestinian land and treats the natives as less than human. The U.S. supplies Israel free of charge with a plethora of nuclear weapons and other military infrastructure and weapons. That scares me. Cynthis McKinney advocates a diplomatic, two state solution and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian land. Barak Obama also openly advocates military aggression in Iran. This baffles me. First off, of course Iran is enriching Uraniam. We are too! It's called nuclear energy. Many countries do it. We just like to use that as an excuse to invade countries that may serve our economic interest. As a matter of fact, the United States has enough nuclear armament to destroy the world several times over. Israel comes in close to 2nd.
Neither Barak Obama nor John McCain support single-payer national healthcare, which helps people in much of the first world to live longer and healthier lives, free of the worry of going in debt just because you fall ill. In the United States, our bodies are treated as commodities, and our health is at the bottom of the private sector's priorities. There are also many "pre-existing" medical conditions that health care companies refuse to fund treatment for, because they are simply to expensive and they wouldn't be reaping enormous profits anymore. In our country, our health is reduced to a corporation. Obama and McCain both recieved massive campaign contributions from these evil, profit mongereing entities that dare to call themselves "healthcare." Cynthia McKinnye supports dissolving the private exploitation of our bodies and creating a government funded program that would cover everybody's medical needs, regardless of income.
Barak Obama and John McCain both supported and voted for the disatrous tax-payer heist known as the Wall Street bailout. $700 million dollars of our tax payer money was simply washed down the drain to bailout those who are responsible for putting us in this dire economic situation that we're in right now. How is that not big government? Which makes me realize that John McCain is not really a conservative and that Obama is simply more interested in maintaing the status quo of the ruling elite. Cynthia McKinney voted against this measure and spoke out eloquently.
Obama and McCain also both voted to not hold the telecom industries who participated in George Bush's illegal wiretapping accountable for their criminal behavior. Both senators gave them a clean slate and everybody got away with it. Cynthia Mckinney voted against this measure.
Obam and McCain both voted for the patriot act, which has dissolved many of our fundamental rights as a citizens for the supposed interest of "national security." Next time you get questioned at the Canadian border about your laptop and the patrol is about to take it without probably cause, think about who voted for the law. Cynthia Mckinney voted against the patriot act.
Neither McCain nor Obama are willing to talk about our country's deep roots in worldwide oppression of democracy and corporate pillaging. There's a reason why we can certain fruits during the winter and it's mainly because our multinational companies cross borders and force indigenous poplulations to work at slave-wage labor for the sake of capital gain. How is this done? It's simple. The U.S. has supperted hundreds of dictatorial and murderous military governments throughout it's history. Whether it's through a proxy war, where we simply provide weapons and train people or through direct intervention, we've constantly oppressed independent nation's will to govern themselves. Just look at how many countries we've invaded since 1890:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
Cynthia Mckinney has acknowledged our shameful past and what we can do to fix it. Obama and McCain refuse to even admit the history.
And finally, what's all the talk about the fucking middle class? What about the working class and the poor? Doesn't everybody deserve a decent amount of financial security? When young families have to choose between medical care and food and proper clothing for the winter monts, I could care a less if there was one more colonial house down the street with white picket fences and an SUV. Fuck that.
Cynthia McKinney ackowledges the classist society that we live in and how a majority of our country's wealth is controlled by the smallest percentage of the rich. This is not a democracy. At best, it's a capitalistic monarchy.
I cannot believe the recent accusations of Obama being a socialist. He is SO FAR AWAY from advocating any socialist ideology. I literally fell on the floor laughing the first time I heard this. I can't imagine how the Socialist Party of the United States presidential candidate Brian Moore felt when he heard this. He probably wanted to shoot himself in the face.
Anyways, there are so many other reasons why I disagree with the two-party system, but I'm getting tired and I need to get up and vote tommorrow.
All I want to say, is that our vote should be hard to get. Never let any million dollar coporate news network (especially FOX), tell you your choices of candidates. Do some research. It's called google. You're not throwing away your vote if you feel the person is the most qualified for the job. It really is that simple.
Happy voting.
-Veg
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Awesome post, I mostly agree. Obama and McCain can't be honest because they would never get elected, and your never throwing away your vote when your voting for someone you believe in. I didn't know Americans should 'settle' on candidates they only agree with on a fraction of the issues, But your told your throwing away your vote if you don't vote for 'there guy', such bullshit. Obama has so much hype that I almost feel sorry for him when he doesn't do half the shit he talks about. I know how you feel when people tell me hes a no good socialist. Which is like calling coal a clean energy source, its mind-numbing.
I would like to know when socialism became such taboo, I applaud politicians like Bernie Sanders and Brian Moore actually daring to pronounce publicly what they believe in. I feel like the 'red scare' is still very much real and perpetuated in far right republicans. Socialism has been linked to fascism, just like not agreeing with the Iraq war is linked to not supporting the U.S. troops, Politicians have fucked with the people and many can longer see the difference.
My theory, is that socialism seemed to have been thrown into that mess of the "communist red scare" bullshit that crazy thugs like Senator McCarthy talked about in the 50's. Basically anything that's not capitalism, corporate politicians have demonized as huge government controlling monsters. In my opinion, the government should play a bigger part, by protecting the people from corporations and providing EVERYBODY with the basic needs of life. That does not exist in the U.S.
But yeah, like you said, the "red scare" really is alive. It's not as overt, but it's there. This would be a GREAT time to experiment with socialism. This is why many countries in Europe, have such low poverty rates and crime rates. That can also be attributed to the fact that people in places like Denamrk are guaranteed healthcare and education as a right of citizenship. In the U.S. we privatize it, for the purpose of capital greed. It's all bullshit, but conservatives like to fram socialism as governments invading your life and giving all your hard-earned money to irresponsible poor people. It's bullshit. The argument against this, is that we have a larger population and our needs are too high, but the truth is, is that we have to money to do it, we just to invest it in state sanctioned violence in the middle east for economic purposes.
But you're right politicians do fuck with people's minds. They wait until their vulnerable and strike you with you emotions and take advantage of you. That's why they're politicians, because they care about themselves and their own career.
McCain is actually quite moderate politically, which is why he didn't get voted for in 2000. Obama is clearly not completely honest but the way I see it,he's the lesser of two evils. Now, I do see why you would vote for an alternative candidate, and in other elections, I might have done that. But in this election, I decided that the future was far to important to vote for a man (or woman)who would not be elected. So, I chose the man who I thought would lead this country into a better direction. Obama may not keep all his promises but i see a better future with him than McCain, and maybe a future where alternative candidates will actually stand a chance.
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