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PatrickforO

(14,602 posts)
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 12:41 AM Apr 2016

"Above all, what is the duty of the American workers whose liberties

have been placed in peril? There is nothing in our government that the ballot cannot remove or amend. It can make and unmake presidents and congresses and courts. It can sweep over trusts, syndicates, corporations, monopolies and every other abnormal development of the money power designed to abridge the liberties of workers and enslave them by the degradation incident to poverty and enforced idleness as cyclones scatter the leaves of our forests. The ballot can do all this and more. It can give our civilization its crowning glory - the cooperative commonwealth!" Eugene Debs, c. 1894

So....VOTE.

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