'When
people say, "Oh, resistance is futile. Why even bother? Surely,
you know, you’re wasting your time," that is part of the
propaganda to keep us locked in this system'
After our
call
to independent media for a 'counter-debate' with the US third
parties, the independent news network Democracy
Now! made a first revolutionary step to break the
US bipartisan debate monopoly.
Amy Goodman
of Democracy Now! explains the process: “Debate
moderator Lester Holt will ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
questions. After their responses, we stop the tape to give Dr. Jill
Stein a chance to answer the same question from her own podium. We
invited Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson to join us, as well, but
he couldn’t make it.”
In this
final part of the debate, Jill Stein points out the fact that the
millions of disappointed Americans with the corrupted establishment,
are actually a crucial mass which can determine the outcome of an
unprecedented political revolution that could crush the establishment
bipartisanism.
As Stein
marks correctly, the culture of 'resistance is futile' has been
produced by the systemic propaganda, so that to prevent people resist
against the system. So, this is the time for the American people to
abandon the 'lesser evil' logic.
This is the
time for the American people to stand up and fight. How?
By rejecting
bipartisanism and voting massively for the Greens and Jill Stein.
This would create an unprecedented political earthquake that could
spread panic to the establishment, while setting the foundations of a
new hopeful era for the American people.
Key
points:
In this
country, you know, we have two major political parties, which are, in
fact, no longer the major voting bloc. The largest voting bloc has
repudiated both the Democratic and Republican parties, because, in
fact, Americans are tired of being thrown under the bus. They are
tired of this rigged economy, and they are tired of the rigged
political system that has created this economy. And they are also
rejecting, at unprecedented levels, the two candidates that are being
forced down their throats as the most disliked and untrusted
candidates in our history.
There are 43
million young people right now, and not-so-young people, Gen Xers and
on into middle age and well beyond, who are trapped into student loan
debt, because once you get in, you cannot get out. Very few get out,
actually, in the current economy that we have of low-wage, part-time
and temporary jobs. So people get stuck in student loan debt.
It turns out
that 43 million is actually a winning plurality of the vote in a
three-way race. So when people say, "Oh, resistance is
futile. Why even bother? Surely, you know, you’re wasting your
time," you know, that is part of the propaganda to keep us
locked in this system. In the words of Alice Walker, "The
biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to
start with." We do have the power. It’s time to stand up and
use it.
This is a
very wounded democracy. If there is evidence of voter fraud, we will
challenge it, and we will bring it to court, as the Greens have led
the way in doing before. But, you know, I think our job here is not
to surrender to a very corrupt system, whichever one of these
candidates wins. Donald Trump has had $4 billion worth of free
prime-time media. Hillary Clinton has had $2 billion worth of free
prime-time media. We’ve had essentially zip. And as a non-corporate
campaign, we don’t have big bucks to put the word out, but we are
doing well in the polls relative to how other non-corporate
third-party candidates have done.
This is the
time for us to stand up. In this election, we are not just deciding
what kind of a world we will have, but whether we will have a world
or not going forward, looking at the climate change that’s
barreling down on us, the threat of nuclear weapons and these
massive, expanding wars, for which there is no end in sight under
both Democrats and Republicans, and specifically Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump. This is the time for us to stand up for the future we
deserve, to reject the lesser evil and to fight for the greater good
like our lives depend on it, remembering that we do have the votes if
we stand up with the courage of our convictions.
Full
transcript:
Things need to get way way worse. Unfortunately, the Welfare State keeps the bottom 20% from rioting, so the economic situation of the middle 60% will have to completely disintegrate before any change does happen. Sometimes it is better to bide your time. No one, absolutely no one, can change the current America. Everything is layered under piles of bureaucratic tradition/law 10 feet deep, so much so, that simple 'peace' negotiations will never work. Just imagine trying to fix a single law on the books today. How many loopholes exist to that law? Where are the other laws, statutes, etc involved? What you find is that there are so many loopholes in the system, that have become part of the system, that you would need to selectively erase history. Not gonna happen.
ReplyDeleteBut by all means, keep writing these articles. I believe that freedom of information, and more importantly, non-biased information will one day change this country we live in.
Thank you for your thoughts! I'll keep mostly your last two lines as an extra motive. More alternative information needed. Technology gives us this opportunity to communicate. People all over the world who want real change.
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