It's a lovely plan, and I wish you well; but the simple fact too many don't seem to see is that this November is a turning point. If the managed democracy run by the oligarchy using the two legacy political parties to limited voter choices once again succeeds, the republic is done. Over. Kaput. The Koch-owned GOP's legislative lobby ALEC is within 5-6 states of calling an Article V convention, at which the intent is to gut the Constitution and replace it with an updated version of the Articles of Confederation. Cf. https://newrepublic.com/article/178442/republicans-rewrite-constitution-radicalism-beyond-trump
The legacy alternative, then, is the Democrat Party, which Bill Clinton sold to Wall Street and corporate interests in 1992, and the governing body of which, the DNC, is composed of corporate executives and lobbyists whose main criterion for an acceptable candidate is that they accept unwavering servitude to corporate interests.
There are the Greens, but only their loyalists consider them an actual political party rather than mainly a social club for academics, intellectuals, and those who consider it a measure of moral rectitude to vote for someone who says all the right trigger words.
This year, however, there is a real, viable third option, if we can keep him safe and alive. No, I'm not joking. I'm old enough to have listened as a news announcer on my local radio station told me his uncle was murdered in Dallas,and just a year shy of voting age when his father was murdered. I am all too aware there are no limits to what people will do to keep their grip on power.
Still, for now, the battle is one of words—disinformation, innuendo, and outright lies so ludicrous they're revelatory of just how deep runs the contempt the power elite has for We the People. It's their biggest weakness, because the fact is Robert Kennedy Jr. is drawing his voter base from the people still capable of exercising their critical thinking skills, and are prepared to respond to propaganda and trolling with facts. His The Real Debate on 27th June, had as many or more viewers that the performance art on CNN, and they heard something long missing from US politics. Instead of meaningless weasel-word promises, they heard facts and specific actions to be taken from someone with 40 years of experience fighting swamp creatures.
I watched our dream for a future of peace and equality and a thriving people die in 1968. If this is our last chance to get it back, I want to be able to tell my grandchildren I fought as hard as I could to make it happen.
Every election is a turning point, I've always been told "this is the most important election of our lifetime." That point is always driven home by fear, like the bogeyman of an Article V convention, where any amendments proposed would have to be ratified by 38 states. (How likely does that sound to you?)
RFK Jr. is clearly tapping into the resentment of the two-party system, but that doesn't make him viable. (CNN's 50M+ debate viewers dwarfed his.) For more on why we're stuck with that system, see: https://americanunion.substack.com/p/third-parties-dont-work
How likely does that sound to me when the Democrats are about to drop more states into GOP hands than they did under Obama? When I know most of them actually support it because Clinton sold them to the same oligarchs in 1992? Very, very likely.
It's a lovely plan, and I wish you well; but the simple fact too many don't seem to see is that this November is a turning point. If the managed democracy run by the oligarchy using the two legacy political parties to limited voter choices once again succeeds, the republic is done. Over. Kaput. The Koch-owned GOP's legislative lobby ALEC is within 5-6 states of calling an Article V convention, at which the intent is to gut the Constitution and replace it with an updated version of the Articles of Confederation. Cf. https://newrepublic.com/article/178442/republicans-rewrite-constitution-radicalism-beyond-trump
The legacy alternative, then, is the Democrat Party, which Bill Clinton sold to Wall Street and corporate interests in 1992, and the governing body of which, the DNC, is composed of corporate executives and lobbyists whose main criterion for an acceptable candidate is that they accept unwavering servitude to corporate interests.
There are the Greens, but only their loyalists consider them an actual political party rather than mainly a social club for academics, intellectuals, and those who consider it a measure of moral rectitude to vote for someone who says all the right trigger words.
This year, however, there is a real, viable third option, if we can keep him safe and alive. No, I'm not joking. I'm old enough to have listened as a news announcer on my local radio station told me his uncle was murdered in Dallas,and just a year shy of voting age when his father was murdered. I am all too aware there are no limits to what people will do to keep their grip on power.
Still, for now, the battle is one of words—disinformation, innuendo, and outright lies so ludicrous they're revelatory of just how deep runs the contempt the power elite has for We the People. It's their biggest weakness, because the fact is Robert Kennedy Jr. is drawing his voter base from the people still capable of exercising their critical thinking skills, and are prepared to respond to propaganda and trolling with facts. His The Real Debate on 27th June, had as many or more viewers that the performance art on CNN, and they heard something long missing from US politics. Instead of meaningless weasel-word promises, they heard facts and specific actions to be taken from someone with 40 years of experience fighting swamp creatures.
I watched our dream for a future of peace and equality and a thriving people die in 1968. If this is our last chance to get it back, I want to be able to tell my grandchildren I fought as hard as I could to make it happen.
Every election is a turning point, I've always been told "this is the most important election of our lifetime." That point is always driven home by fear, like the bogeyman of an Article V convention, where any amendments proposed would have to be ratified by 38 states. (How likely does that sound to you?)
RFK Jr. is clearly tapping into the resentment of the two-party system, but that doesn't make him viable. (CNN's 50M+ debate viewers dwarfed his.) For more on why we're stuck with that system, see: https://americanunion.substack.com/p/third-parties-dont-work
How likely does that sound to me when the Democrats are about to drop more states into GOP hands than they did under Obama? When I know most of them actually support it because Clinton sold them to the same oligarchs in 1992? Very, very likely.