OK, so an election boycott doesn't look like it's possible. Just not enough people to get behind it. It seems like those most capable of pulling it off, i.e., left leaning people, organizations, blogs and alternative media sites, etc., most involved in trying to do "something", are also by and large those most conditioned to the representative system electoral process. Therefore instead of seeking solutions outside the electoral process, which they recognize needs to be done, they continue to focus on the election of politicians because their lifelong conditioning has stamped that into their brains as "democracy".
It's a shame I think. Many progressive leftists (finally) realizing the Democratic party is a corrupt dead-end are now focusing on third parties. They know no other way than to join another team playing the same dead-end game. And that, like the elections themselves, takes away organization, support and money for outside the system actions.
It goes like that over and over, like being lost in a desert and thinking over the next hill there will be an oasis where they can eat and drink. But the oasis never comes.
I remember years ago while we lived under the Bush regime thinking why we couldn't get enough people together to accomplish ONE THING. I thought if we could accomplish just ONE THING, maybe that could snowball into two things, then three things and so on. Kind of like breaking the ice on something then the floodgates open.
What I had in mind at that time was ending U.S. imperialism. Specifically the wars started by the Bush regime in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Neverending Global War OF Terror. I wasn't as focused on U.S. imperialism as a whole at that time, more the Bush wars. There's a helluva lot more to U.S. imperialism than those wars as we've seen since Bush, under Obama, with Russia and China now in the crosshairs.
The thing about U.S. imperialism is that it's so intertwined with the other major problems we Serfs face, including the financial oligarchy, the Trans Pacific Partnership and TTIP, climate change, and of course our very liberty and freedom which has been usurped by the imperialist War OF Terror and the military/police state that now engulfs our lives.
If we could mount a legitimate challenge to U.S. imperialism, we might be able to topple the House of Cards. And that would impact the entire world and possibly humanity itself.
And then there's Hillary Clinton. The primary criticism of Clinton from the left is that she's a warmonger, de facto war criminal, and could very well start WWIII. (Advance WWIII more accurately, we are IN WWIII right now). She is considered by many as dangerous a person there is on the planet at this time and she's going to become President of the United States of Imperialism. (Anything can happen but that's how it looks now).
If we can't stop her from becoming President (which I think we could with an election boycott), why don't we try to stop U.S. imperialism before she gets the keys? Or at least lay the groundwork for a sustained protest against U.S. imperialism starting the day she takes office. We already know what she's about, we know what she's capable of, those on the left (and right) that oppose her and U.S. imperialism should take that on NOW.
Focusing on Jill Stein and the Green Party, which has no chance this election, is taking the easy way out. There should be an All Hands on Deck approach to ending U.S. imperialism now and preventing Hillary Clinton from killing more people in our names.
There's an event from September 23-25 in Washington D.C. called "No War 2016". It's being held at American University. Many speakers, workshops and a culminating protest. Hopefully this can expand and become the primary focus of left activists instead of trying to elect Jill Stein or destroying their morals by voting for Clinton or Trump.
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