And of course, Clinton and Trump split the remainder about evenly. What kind of representation is that?
The election is not about democracy. It's about selective approval of pre-approved candidates that don't address most people's wants and needs...or else they would have voted. It's about the difficulty in the process. It's about the oligarchy letting us think we have a choice every 2 or 4 years (non-presidential contests get even fewer votes).
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)