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Don't Take My Vote For Granted

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It's not the other candidates that the Democrats and Republicans fear, although Romney admits Stein bested him in the 2002 Massachusetts Gubernatorial debates, it is their ability to ask and answer the questions Obama and Romney must avoid.

Money and the media will allow us to hear only two candidates and the 1% really doesn't care which one wins.

Teddy Roosevelt feared a violent uprising if the wealthy continued to exploit the public. It should not come to that, but unless we, by our votes, support politics of courage rather than politics of fear, Democracy is lost ---- if it is not already.

Jim Goodman is a dairy farmer from Wonewoc Wisconsin

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Jim Goodman, a WK Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow, is an organic dairy farmer and farm activist from Wonewoc Wisconsin. Encouraging local food production and consumption in the industrialized north, allowing the global south sovereignty in (more...)
 
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