Couple weeks ago Kucinich's principals had us all enthralled. Now , here many at DU seem to be in the lesser evils mode. No thanks. Real convictions is what America needs.
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One True Voice on the Trail
by Chris Hedges.
I am tired of living in a country where 16-year-old girls die because insurance company profits are more important than human life.
I am tired of a government that runs offshore penal colonies where the detained are tortured and denied the basic protections of the Geneva Convention.
I am tired of living in a state that makes war against countries that do not threaten us.
I am tired of watching basic constitutional rights, such as the right to privacy, taken away from citizens.
Most of all, I am tired of being told every four years that I must vote for candidates who do nothing to stop the brutal and callous assault by corporations on the American working class, sending their jobs overseas and stripping workers of benefits and human dignity
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And so - to be sure that this year my vote goes to someone who does more than pay lip service to the moral and physical deterioration of the nation - I will pull the lever for Dennis Kucinich.
I can hear the collective groan. He won’t win. He has no real following. It is a wasted vote.
But this is the groan of the comfortable, those who have health insurance and a decent job. This is the groan of those who can send their kids to expensive colleges and probably went to one. The groans of the poor in this country, including the increasingly impoverished working class, are no longer audible to most of us. Their lives have been rendered invisible, of little interest to the advertisers who sell us products on television or take out full-page color ads in the newspapers and glossy magazines. And when the corporations write you off in America, everyone else does, too.
Any vote is wasted that does not address the terrible injustices being done to tens of millions of people who have lost the opportunity to earn a living wage. Any vote is wasted that does not, even if it ends up being a protest vote, attempt to halt our transformation into an oligarchic state where a tiny, privileged elite controls our money and our politics.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080107_one_true_voice_on_the_trail/