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Vote Out Both Major Parties, Now

Talk about a snake oil salesman, even we, the Party of Commons, as skeptical as we were about Barack Obama in 2007 and 2008 (and never supported him until the general election), thought he would at least be marginally better than George W. Bush, but this regime could just as well be Bush's 3rd term, and know one would know the difference. About the only good thing about Obama is that he kept crazy McCain & ignoramus Palin out of office, but he did not give his true depth of his feelings regarding war and peace (to an extent that the Nobel committee, shockingly in retrospect, gave him a peace prize), misled about ending the tax breaks for the rich, is even worst than Bush regarding the environment, just as bad as Bush on civil liberties, even put social security on the trading block as even Republicans were surprised that Democrats would hint at giving up the New Deal & the Great Society, not that they haven't already to a great degree via the debt ceiling deal. The Obama administration has not, for the most part, even bothered to upset Bush's loathsome appointments; such as in the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), where insiders of the food and drug industries are "regulating" their friends, and in the Department of Justice (for instance, it took the administration a long time to oust a prosecutor, former U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, who seemingly railroaded a former Alabama governor for political reasons). The list goes on and on about the philosophy (yes, that's philosophy, not ineptness) of this administration. In 2012, the American people should not have to have only a choice between Obama and the Republican candidates for president, there should be a better and third party or fourth party, somewhere, a coalition, an independent candidate, or something, and we should not shrink from supporting them, and hopefully coalescing around one in order to defeat the major parties. We don't have four more years to gamble on one or the other calamity that may not be able to be undone before the Democrats and the Republicans undo our Constitution, or civilization itself.

[Originally published in "Commoner," on 9/5/11; revised on 9/5/11.]

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