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The American Electoral Charade
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Those citizens that want to abolish the American oligarchic form of government should vote for the Green Party, and put Cynthia McKinney at the head of the ticket.

If all goes as scripted, the Democrats hope to spend from now to November congratulating themselves on their ability to forge unity out of the seeming chaos of the excruciating primary election season, now thankfully over. “Unity” will join “change” as a meaningless buzzword in the vapid Democratic vocabulary. The fact is, corporate Democrats have been unified all along, joined at the hip in grim determination to ultimately plant themselves so microscopically to the left of the Republicans that the voters’ choice will be just a matter of personality and individual taste. So, who do you like – Barack Obama or John McCain? At the end of the general election campaign, that’s what it will boil down to for millions of voters, as the two corporate dancers draw ever closer together.

To be sure, there will be lots of manufactured drama, but very little of the action will have anything to do with policy, just as in the primary campaign…

Those citizens that want to abolish the American oligarchic form of government should vote for the Green Party, and put Cynthia McKinney at the head of the ticket. That’s the very least one can do; the real task is to create multiple people’s movements that will force an end to imperial warfare – a prerequisite for all the other tasks that face humanity…Corporate media, through whose bizarre, distorted lenses most people view their nation and world, can make the opposition disappear, in an instant. Remember Dennis Kucinich? Most people don’t, thanks to private media corporations that stage-manage and slick-package cosmetic versions of U.S. public discourse and call it “democracy.”…

BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford at BlackAgendaReport dot -com

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