Vote Third Party and Independent – on Principle

Nicholas Ruiz, an independent progressive candidate for congress in Florida, writes at the Florida Progressive Coalition Blog:

Few would argue that the two party system is a benefit to us, while we argue that monopolies are rotten for the maintenance of integrity and fairness in every other enterprise.

The two parties, taken together, constitute a systemic Republi-crat malaise, wherein each party – notwithstanding the frequently cute quarrels and media mudfests – essentially rubberstamps each other’s policies by default. Difference in such a system is reduced to catchy, emotional sound bites, which serve to polarize viewers, spectators and ultimately, voters, while simulating difference – enacting a facade of political diversity.

In the end, the winners in such a set-up – that amounts to a perpetual, media-sparring match for cap feathers among the self-appointed wealthy and commercial society elected, or ‘electable,’ contestants – are the corporations, who infuse enough capital to the Republi-crat majority to decide the outcomes of political policy questions. So the corporations (and aristocratic interests) get what they want, at the expense of the rank and file public, year after year, ad infinitum.

Criticism of the Republi-crat system as it stands is muted as comedy, or essentially muzzled, by an equal process of elimination of all third party perspectives compliments of monopolized corporate media.

In 2010, voters should vote their conscience, by seeking out other political party options as a matter of principle. Expect different policies, when voting for different candidates, from different political parties. If you wish for more of the same policies that are running America into the ground – then vote, once again, for another Republi-crat.