The two-party political system has been offering voters two choices: bad and worse. Lately these choices have proved to us that we have selections, not elections. The establishment and their media cohorts promote their choice and divide us to achieve their goals.
Any worthwhile independent candidate is likely to face the faulty logic of the “spoiler vote”, leading voters to choose the lesser of two evils. So, nothing changes.
How have these two political parties been working for us lately? And how do we make a change?
The short-term gratification from a perceived victory of the lesser of two evils perpetuates the trap of the two-party system.
Learned helplessness, or conditioning by the establishment, to accept what we are led to believe is “good enough” creates this mindset. And the establishment depends on it.
Give someone a fish, they eat for a day. Teach them to fish, and they eat for a lifetime. The wise would-be fisherman may go hungry for a bit, while he perfects his skills for the future.
He then succeeds in the long run. The wise voter who wishes to change things realizes the simple mathematical peril of “the spoiler vote” but knows that change of this magnitude does not come easily.
The devil is in the details. And in this case the details are: a solid candidate, and the backing of a strong people’s movement.
Without these two items, that “spoiler vote” is just that, a symbolic gesture, a statement with no teeth.
Optimists believe that change for the good can and will happen. But it won’t happen unless we make it happen.
Coming soon to a voting booth near you: The solid candidate (yet to be determined) and the backing of the Truth Freedom Health movement of the working people.
