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For OpEdNews: chris rice - Writer If the thought of McCain, Obama, or Clinton being our next president is making you suicidal... "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Every four years we have two options. 1. We can line up like sheep at the voting booth & give our consent to four more years of corruption, mismanagement, pork & high taxes or 2. Stay home & complain that our vote doesn't count. What I am proposing is a third option. Because the rules have changed & our vote has been hijacked by privilege & special interest. What I am proposing is that we don't act like sheep on election night & we don't sit at home & complain. What I propose is that we stand up like men & say enough is enough! It would seem that the founding fathers understood the dangers as well as the benefits of a democracy & even left explicit directions: "Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."
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