“It is an impossible task to ask me to have to vote for someone who is actively contributing to a genocide of people like me, that directly affects friends and family. I’m not going to do that… I think it’s worse for the long term, strategically, to allow the Democrats to do whatever they want and still vote for them. That’s how we got a Democratic Party that is so far to the right, and endorsed by Dick Cheney.”
– Sonia Rosen, a voter in Pennsylvania discussing her reasons for voting for not supporting either candidate in 2024 presidential election [1]
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According to the most recent poll by Atlas, voter support in the critical swing states, the competition between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is ‘neck and neck.” What’s more, in a number of states, the percentage of people willing to vote for Jill Stein or “undecided” is higher than the difference between the “Big Two.”
Michigan, for instance holds Donald Trump at 49.2 percent, Kamala Harris at 47.9 percent, and Jill Stein at 1.8 percent! No big surprise that the Democrats and their media lapdogs like Lawrence O’Donnell are saying that “a vote for Stein is really a vote for Trump.”
But if America is TRULY a democracy, why restrict policies that many Americans care deeply about? The Genocide of Palestinians by Israel. The cost of war at every level. The lack of housing and so forth. Candidates do attempt to run on these positions, but they are left out of the media lime-light.
The big elite donors, like Bill Gates with his $50 million donation to the Kamala Harris campaign will determine who can and cannot solicit support for candidates in service of working people.
Even beyond selecting the voters’ “weapon-of-choice” in this quadrennial ceremony, how well served are people who don’t see their concerns reflected in major political debates and PACs? This dynamic may not be of interest to the mainstream legacy media, but is fully endorsed by this radio program, the Global Research News Hour.
The program this week is a presentation of the Free and Equals Presidential debate aired Wednesday October 23rd in Los Angeles. The contenders were Jill Stein of the Green Party, Chase Oliver of the Libertarian Party, and Randall Terry of the Constitution Party. The moderators were Christina Tobin, the Founder and Chair of Free and Equal Inc, and David Walker, the former U.S. Comptroller General. It was edited for the length of the program. Mike Leon, the director of policy and strategy for Free and Equal Inc was interviewed briefly at the beginning of the program.
Here is the program in its entirety:
Please be advised the Global Research News Hour does not endorse any of the candidates. The debate is included to equip listeners with a wider range of views on the issues at hand.
(Global Research News Hour episode 447)
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