Noam Chomsky just released a new piece on the economic crisis and the current election taking place in the United States. I have the the article linked below but here is an excerpt from the piece.
"In a functioning democratic society, a political campaign would address such fundamental issues (of the economic crisis), looking into root causes and cures, and proposing the means by which people suffering the consequences can take effective control.................The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats......Differences can be detected in the current election as well. Voters should consider them, but without illusions about the political parties, and with the recognition that consistently over the centuries, progressive legislation and social welfare have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace."
This election (as with all) many will vote for the lesser of two evils, which is still evil. It's important to keep in mind that the 2008 presidential election is not over until December 2012. If pressure is not placed on the winning candidate to hold certain desired positions then the voices of those who voted them into office will be drowned out by the corporate dollars that paid their way to the presidency.
Exposing the Un-Democratic Face of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky
