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Lendman: Never lose hope. Great victories take long struggles. America had its share. Slavery ended. Most people thought it was impossible but it happened. Labor and civil rights were won. New Deal/Great Society programs instituted real social changes.
Money power can be challenged and defeated, but not without protracted struggle. Doing it requires the mother of them all. It could take many years, perhaps decades. Imagine the difference if achieved. Social benefits could be restored.
Imperial wars could end. No money. No wars. Imagine America and other Western societies at peace, not permanently at war. Imagine something worth struggling for. I'm in the fight every day. I encourage others to get involved for their own self-interest.
NNC: Now in the USA, the issue of election is so hot, and probably this calmed down Occupy protesters. Who is most likely to win - Romney or Obama?
Lendman: Who can know for sure. US elections are subterfuge, shams. They're manipulated, rigged and illegitimate. Money power runs America. it decides who wins or loses.
At the same time, it matters little whether Obama, Romney or Mickey Mouse wins. The same system continues. That's the problem. America's unseen power structure runs things.
Duopoly power reflects it. America is a one party state with two wings. Independents are entirely shut out. Some democracy. It exists in name only. None, in fact, exists.
It's crucial to change that, but ordinary people have to do it on their own. So far, little evidence suggests they're up to the challenge. Maybe some day things will change.
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