An interesting essay on the futility of voting for the lesser evil on the Dissident Voice website
"...The United States is in crisis because the two-party system has failed the people and the planet. On a global scale, the United States is rated as a “flawed democracy” and corruption is on the rise. Studies within the United States find that popular support for a policy has no impact on whether it will be made into law by Congress, while wealthy interests have a significant impact over whether a law passes or fails. This is consistent with the United States being a plutocracy ruled by the wealthy...
...the United States is a mirage democracy where the candidates are largely chosen by the power holders and the people get to vote for one or another corporate-approved candidate. A few progressive candidates are elected from time to time but they are marginalized ...
...Lesser evil voting has driven a race to the bottom in the quality of the candidates because as long as people are voting out of fear, it doesn’t matter who the candidate is or what they stand for...
...The potential for people power has never been greater...No matter what happens this November, the protest movement must continue...We have the ability to make this country ungovernable and if we use that power, we can make demands that cannot be ignored...
While the blog can applaud such sentiments, we do ask, why are the demands so modest such as Medicare for all, Green New Deal, tuition-free college and vocational school, universal basic income, or wealth tax, regardless of how radical they appear to conservatives. The remain half-measures.
The World Socialist Party is a third party and it is not content with some soothing salve to solve our problems.
Revolution, Not Reform
https://www.wspus.org/2019/09/revolution-not-reform-by-jordan-levi-swami-netero/
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