by Scott Creighton
In America we enjoy the most democratic process of any other country which is why people like Hillary Clinton can run around condemning Iran for their hacked elections (which were observed and deemed fair and open) and Russia for their crooked elections (which were observed and deemed fair and open) and Venezuela for their rigged elections (which were… well, you get it by now) or at least we like TELLING OURSELVES we enjoy the most democratic election process in the world…
But….
1. Here is a PDF of the actual contract signed by both parties prior to the election “debates” this year – “The 2012 Debates – Memorandum of Understanding Between the Obama and Romney Campaigns“
About this little agreement, Glenn Greenwald says:
“… within this one process of structuring the presidential debates, we have every active ingredient that typically defines, and degrades, US democracy. The two parties collude in secret. The have the same interests and goals. Everything is done to ensure that the political process is completely scripted and devoid of any spontaneity or reality.
All views that reside outside the narrow confines of the two parties are rigidly excluded. Anyone who might challenge or subvert the two-party duopoly is rendered invisible.
Lobbyists who enrich themselves by peddling their influence run everything behind the scenes. Corporations pay for the process, which they exploit and is then run to bolster rather than threaten their interests. The media’s role is to keep the discourse as restrictive and unthreatening as possible while peddling the delusion that it’s all vibrant and free and independent and unrestrained. And it all ends up distorting political realities far more than illuminating them while wildly exaggerating the choices available to citizens and concealing the similarities between the two parties.” Glenn Greenwald
2. While the corporate charade is taking place inside, presidential candidates are being forcibly arrested outside…
“Police arrested Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala as they tried to enter the second presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island. The two candidates were protesting being barred from participating in the debate despite being on 85 percent of ballots nationwide in the 2012 presidential election. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which sponsored the debate, requires a third party candidate to poll at 15 percent or higher to participate. The Democratic and Republican Parties set up the Commission in 1987 and have run it since.” In These Times
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Filed under: Election 2012, Scott Creighton
Yep, that’s what democracy looks like.
I’ve been looking for somebody I can vote for. There they stand, surrounded by storm troopers.
r ap
Yes, Roy, I agree. I decided to vote The Green Party several weeks ago. They will not be on my ballot, but in my state I’m allowed to write-in. So I will!
Allowed to write-in? Isn’t that crazy in a democracy?
I never even heard of them before the 16th, Anne, in an email I got from a Matt Gonzalez. Kind of blew it off till I saw them here. This did it for me, regardless of wherever else they stand.
If they’re not on the ballot here, I’ll write them in anyway. That’ll probably cancel the whole ballot out, but there’s really nobody on it I’d vote for. Just a couple I’d like to vote against.
r
Yep, me too,Roy! I am not going to let my vote go vacant. I am voting for Jill Stein…
Well, Jan,
That makes three of us, so far.
r
You know, in many ways, I can’t wait for every last illusion to come crashing down all and the system to reveal itself.
At least the full power of the iron fist will have some chance of getting people to wake the fuck up!
i think you are right – particularly in calling it the ¨system¨
Sure there is old money/power etc. involved in this mess, but it is mainly ¨The system¨
People are scared, not of the Rothschilds or the Bohemian Grove, but of uncertainty, they know they are lied to, but they are weak and decent folk who want their children to be happy and not get involved with anything nefarious. They would perhaps leave the system, if there was a guarantee of a smooth transition – but since that is highly unlikely – I guess they will have to swallow the ¨iron fist¨ once more.
Poor folk.
following on this line of thought (which reads apologist) – makes me think of the people/tribe of Bani Walid. In Bani Walid they are standing up against oppression and I have heard people from the tribe speak on the advantages of tribalism – The american indian also seeks gravitational efforts in the direction of renewed tribalism to overcome their historical spiritual defeat which left them nauseated.
The western white man altough factualy the inventor of racism, would reject tribalism exactly on those terms. But while tribalism may be prone to skirmishes between tribes, that has rarely been the case unless egged on by western interests. There is no tribe to fall back on to for a great many of us and we are relegated to ideas like syndicalism, unions and basic friendship to overcome imposition.
Quite true. Notice the rise in the Hawaiian independence movement born from similar feelings and passions. These cultures wish to throw us off and in so doing, reject the poisonous influences we have infected them with. I think this is also predicted in the upcoming movie Cloud Atlas if I am not mistaken, but I haven’t read it or seen the film.
I just can’t get enough:
Greatest Scenes In Film: They Live – Sunglasses
In fact, if you have the spare time, watch the entire movie — 1 and 1/2 hrs:
ELES VIVEM – THEY LIVE (1988) – FULL MOVIE
I am going to watch this !!!
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