Chris Hedges: "In this year’s presidential election I will vote for a third-party candidate"

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136. Thank You for posting this!

I actually gave it a Kick and a DURec in the hopes that more thinking DUers will actually
Go to The Link and read the entire article
which was about so much more than the Voting 3rd Party element you carefully excised
and chose to highlight here in an effort to discredit hedges.

So for DUers reading this thread, do yourself a favor:
Go to The LINK and read the entire article.

"The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters. You won’t hear it on the corporate-owned airwaves and cable networks, including MSNBC, which has become to the Democratic Party what Fox News is to the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party. You won’t hear it on NPR or PBS. You won’t read about it in our major newspapers. The issues that matter are being debated, however, on “Democracy Now!,” Link TV, The Real News, Occupy websites and Revolution Truth. They are being raised by journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. You can find genuine ideas in corners of the Internet or in books by political philosophers such as Sheldon Wolin. But you have to go looking for them.

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"We looked at polling on seven key issues and found supermajorities of Americans—60-plus percent—were with us on issues including health care, retirement, energy, money in politics,” he said. “We are more mainstream than Congress. We aren’t crazy radicals. We are trying to do what the people want. This is participatory democracy versus oligarchy. It’s the elites versus the people. We stand with the majority.”



http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/thank_you_for_standing_up_20120123/

You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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