We have to be heard and we've got to be heard in the voting booth as well
as outside of the voting booth. There's just no question about it. If you go
into the voting booth and you give them a vote for either Wall Street sponsored
candidate, you're giving them a mandate for four more years. That policy is an
abysmal failure. And look at the record on Nader. The exit polls showed he got
equal votes from Democrats and Republicans but the majority of his votes
actually came from people who would not have come out. They were independent
voters who voted for Ross Perot. They far, by a ten to one margin. They
outstripped the votes that he took away from Democrats and Republicans. So, in
my view, the real risk here is in allowing us to continue this surge towards
the police state and empire, which will continue. Barack Obama has a clear
track record on the expanding war, the attack on our civil liberties and the
expanding Free Trade Agreements.
We know what we're voting for. If you think this has helped us or helped
you or helped the one out of every three who are in foreclosure right now,
sure, vote for more of the same. But if you don't want more of the same, you've
got to stand up and push forward the real solution. Whether we win the office
or not, we can win the day by showing that we are a real movement for democracy
and justice. It's alive and well out there in the Occupy Movement, the
anti-foreclosures and the protests at student campuses. And in public opinion
where one out of every two people is calling for a third party; there is a
strong voice out there. What you're hearing from them is a propaganda campaign
that's intended to make you use your vote as a weapon against yourself. We have
ten years experience now about where that gets us. It's really important to
reject the propaganda, look at your experience and start standing up. We are
the ones we've been waiting for. We need to replace the politics of fear with
the politics of courage. We have the solutions that people support and that the
public is clamoring for right now. / We need to, at the very least, drive them
forward.
Rob: /
Wow, you certainly are more passionate about that than about anything else that
you've responded to so far. And I think for good reason. Now, I've got a tough
one for you.
Jill: What
was that? I missed the last thing you said.
Rob: I
have a tough question for you.
Jill: Okay.
Rob: The
other candidate, who is in real competition with you, is Rocky Anderson in the
Justice Party. Why should somebody vote for you over Rocky Anderson?
Jill: Let
me ask you. How many states is Rocky on the ballot in?
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