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| Mass Struggle against U.S. and EU austerity |
Excerpt, editing, re-reporting, commentary by Carolyn
Bennett
Because of the “anti-democratic election laws” in the United
States of America (often requiring tens of thousands of signatures just to get
on the ballot), Kishore writes, Socialist Equality Party candidates for the
U.S. presidency are blocked from full participation as a voter choice in today’s
sham elections.
Socialist Equality Party candidates (president) Jerry White and
(vice president) Phyllis Scherrer’s names appear on the ballot in only three U.S.
states: Wisconsin, Colorado and Louisiana; and in several other states under “official
write-in certification.”
Louisiana and Wisconsin: White and
Scherrer on the ballot and identified as the candidates of the Socialist
Equality Party.
Colorado: White and Scherrer’ names
listed on the ballot with the party designation SEP, full name of the party not
spelled out.
California: write-in procedure
depends on whether you vote by mail or cast a ballot at the polls on November
6. White and Scherrer were included on a list of qualified write-in candidates
made available October 26 to voters. (Other instructions apply)
Michigan: voters must write the
names of the candidates on the ballot card in the space indicated for write-in
candidates. Jerry White and Phyllis Scherrer are official write-in candidates
and votes for them will be tabulated and reported by the state election
division.
New York: the procedure for casting
a write-in vote varies depending on whether your precinct has machines with
mechanical levers or optical scanning.
Illinois: counting of write-in
votes is a function of the county election authorities, not the states, votes
for White and Scherrer will be recorded in Cook County and the city of Chicago;
Dupage County (suburban Chicago); and Rock Island County.
Kentucky: write-in space appears on
the ballot under the heading “President and Vice President of the United
States.” In all other states, supporters
must write in the names of White and Scherrer as a “class conscious statement
of support for the socialist alternative to the two parties of big business.”
Americans who bother to consider voting, millions don’t, seem
caught up in a frenzy of Republican-Democratic tribalism as in the
throes of some cult or religious madness and as such are blinded, blissfully oblivious, to loss of the whole critical establishment of law and liberty.
The establishment of rights under law, the
establishment of a more perfect union. The
establishment of liberty. The establishment of democracy ─ this republic for
which we stand (or do not stand).
A republic is not a tribal construct: Democratic,
Republican; conservative, liberal; pink, brown; blue, red. These are the false
flags in which the people, too many people, blindly cloak themselves.
Loss of faith in crucial institutions
At a level higher than the combined ballots cast for these Democratic
and Republican candidates for the 2012 presidency, an astonishing “58 percent”
of U.S. eligible voters will sit out today’s general election. This means that
whoever wins will have been voted into office by less than one fourth of
eligible voters. The shame of it all. This is not "democratic" either in process or participation (electorate or contenders).
Is it any wonder that a group calling itself “Attack the
System,” referenced today in a Press TV story, holds the belief “that the
existing U.S. system is basically illegitimate.”
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“Under conditions of global economic crisis,” Kishore writes,
United States militarism erupts and leads “inexorably to world war with
catastrophic consequences.”
One piece of evidence of the undermining of the
establishment of liberty and its possibility in democratic rights is that on this
long, multi-million-dollar slog to Election Day, the exclusive Republican and
Democratic Party candidates cleverly avoided discussing murder by remote: the
U.S. government’s global policy of extra-judicial assassination of foreigners
and U.S. citizens.
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The officials in the government of the United States,
Kishore writes, have “jettisoned the core democratic principle of due process”
yet this fact never rose in the "debates"; and it “was virtually ignored by
the media on the Right and on the Left.”
Moreover, he says, “by any objective legal standard, the
president of the United States should be subject to impeachment proceedings—but
his principal opponent and the entire media and political establishment are
complicit in the crime.”
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| Mass Struggle Wisconsin, USA |
Layered crises awaiting mass struggle, incorruptible leadership
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| Mass Struggle Egypt |
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| Mass Struggle Montreal, Canada |
“Capitalism holds out to the population of the United States
and the world a future of poverty, unemployment, war, dictatorship.”
Mass struggle “transformed into a conscious revolutionary
movement against capitalism” is imperative, Kishore says. And for this to
happen, truly new leadership must be born.
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| Mass Struggle Greece |
Maybe the movement will begin taking shape after the frenzy. Kishore takes the view that the “ruling class” is delusional
if it believes it can continue to pursue oppressive policies (globally and domestically)
without provoking mass struggles. In fact, he observes, these struggles “have
already begun to erupt.”
Sources and notes
“The class issues in the 2012 elections” (By Joseph Kishore),
November 6, 2012, http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n06.shtml
“How to vote for SEP candidates Jerry White and Phyllis
Scherrer,” November 1, 2012,
http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/vote-n01.shtml
“58 percent of eligible US voters boycott presidential
election,” Press TV November 6, 2012,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/06/270729/58-of-eligible-us-voters-boycott-polls/
Today in 1860, Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S.
presidency.
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