The Green Party candidate for president, Jill Stein was arrested Tuesday night when she attempted to enter the hall at Hofstra University where the second 2012 presidential debate was being held. Arresting Green Party presidential candidates has become a hallmark of our dysfunctional pretend democracy. The exclusion of the so-called minor party candidates prevents new voices and new ideas from being heard. Republicans and Democrats are merely ideological chimeras representing the ruling corporate oligarchy.
I don't believe it is written anywhere in the Constitution of the United States of America that our electoral process, erroneously referred to as a democracy, is to be limited to two parties. Yet sadly that is exactly what our elections have become; an anemic choice between "the lesser of two lessers" as Michael Moore describes it. Each election cycle we are expected to become energized about our sacred right and duty to vote, but why do we continue to believe in the myth American freedom? Elections are bought by the obscenely wealthy to perpetuate their unassailable birthright to devastate lives and the viability of the planet for profit. How much is enough? In the minds of these greedy simpletons there are no limits to growth. Resources are finite, ecosystems are fragile, but profit is divinely ordained as eternal and noble.
So as we enter another sham perversion of America's democracy in action, voters actually become vitriolically divided about which flavor of vanilla they prefer.While this confederacy of idiots reaches a fever pitch, American soldiers are fighting illegal and criminal wars, killing mostly civilians, while sacrificing their lives, bodies and sanity to protect our sacred right to vote for one flavor of vanilla or the other and watch the Kardashians. In America, opiates are not administered intravenously, they they are riveted into our brains by electromagnetic stun guns.
During the 2000 presidential election, I became very involved in the Ralph Nader campaign. I was excited to be able to vote for the very first time for a candidate whose ideas and remedies for an ailing world were compassionate, intelligent, and genuine. Nader too was arrested during the presidential debate held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Nader had a ticket in hand which should have given him admission as a member of the audience just like every other ticket holder that night. Instead, Nader was greeted by a phlanx of state troopers blocking his path into the hall where the debate was to take place. Nader showed the troopers his ticket, but they were not impressed.Their job that night was to make certain one American citizen was denied his legal right to be in the audience. The media virtually ignored the incident. As if arresting a legitimate presidential candidate, as well as a man who is responsible for saving more lives than penicillin, was not an outrageous assault on the constitution, an insanely ironic condemnation of the nationally televised counterfeit exhibition of play acting democracy going on inside, and otherwise just plain newsworthy. The debate went on under the auspices of the God, Country, the Constitution ( shredded in the UMass parking lot) and the approving nod of an an incomprehensibly wealthy wad of powerful elites so clueless they will never see the coming apocalypse that they have spawned and will inevitably decimate what was once a perfectly lovely planet.
During the next several post-election years, Ralph Nader was pilloried at every opportunity by many Americans for causing the feeble minded, war criminal George W. Bush to be elected. Imagine becoming the most hated man in America for simply trying to bring our putative democracy back from the dead. And so my children as November 6th approaches, the zombification of America accelerates. jj
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