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from Khalil Al-Puerto Rikani
An article by Ronald B. McGuire
During the Democratic convention Cynthia McKinney attended a rally opposing the occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and North America where the U.S. continues to violate treaties with the Native Americans. Obama wants to redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, and possibly Iran. He supports the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Obama calls for the overthrow of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Cynthia supports Mugabe’s land reform program to return to Native Zimbabweans land forcibly stolen by European settlers.
Cynthia and Rosa have consistently supported a foreign policy based on peace and justice. They support reparations to the victims of American imperialism in the United States (slavery reparations) and abroad. They support free public college education, child care, health care and worker rights.
Cynthia and Rosa won’t be elected this year. But they are both young enough to be elected in 12 to 20 years.
It took 400 years for this country to develop into the imperialist empire that the United States is today. It will take us more than 4 years to create an alternative.
Cynthia and Rosa need to get as many votes they can in order to show the Democrats that there are people in this country who will not buy the lie that Obama is the most progressive alternative we can hope for. A vote for Obama in New York or any of the other state where he is guaranteed to win by landslides, won’t help him defeat McCain.
On the other hand, every vote for Cynthia and Rosa will do two things. First, it will show the Democrats (and Republicans) that there is a growing number of people who won’t accept the fact that Obama is the most progressive alternative we can expect.
Second, your vote for Cynthia and Rosa will help build an alternative we can believe in. If the Green Party gets 5% of the national vote, the Party will qualify for millions of dollars of taxpayer matching funds in 2012. That would change the nature of the political process since it would end the two party system. The Democrats would have to negotiate with the Greens or else face the possibility of a third party continuing to grow and eventually contend for power.
Some of us want to move the Democratic Party to the left and others of us want to move out of the Democratic Party to create a new alternative. If you support either of these two goals and you vote in New York, California or another “Blue landslide” state, the best way to support your goal is to vote for Cynthia and Rosa.
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The economic system is very important. I believe more so than the political system. A capitalist economic system embraces more laissez-faire and equal opportunity, whilst a socialist economic system embraces more economic interventionism and equal outcome.
If you think about it, even in a democratic political system the elected official becomes a dictator if the economy is socialistic and centrally controlled. A good example of this would be Adolf Hitler and NAZI Germany.
Are you worried, Anon, that we’re going to develop a socialist economic system?
Please bear in mind that while a socialist system does embrace economic intervention and strives (at least in theory) for equal outcomes, not all economic systems which do these things are socialist. It takes more than that to be socialist.
I’d also point out that Hitler became a dictator by winning political power in a democracy, and then removing the democratic controls on the political system. He didn’t become a dictator by giving Germany a socialist or a centrally-planned economy (despite the name of his party).