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Don't Take My Vote For Granted

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It's our fault that health care reform, if it can be called that, will be written by the insurance industry.

We occupied Zuccotti Park, the Capitol in Madison, protests and strikes happened across the nation,--- the president never showed up, seldom even acknowledged any of the actions.

What more were we supposed to do?

In November he will again, take the vote of progressives for granted, of course they won't vote for Romney, so he is the only choice, right?---- don't take my vote for granted.

I'm not OK with voting for the lesser of two evils.

I'm not OK with holding my nose and voting for the incumbent because Mitt Romney would undoubtedly take the failings of the current administration to new levels.

I'm not OK with a president who supports wealth and corporate power over the best interests of the people, and I'm certainly not OK with a potential Republican President who is so out of touch with the lives of average people and so rich, he refuses to discuss it.

I'm not OK with a political system that will allow only "major party" candidates to participate in the debate process, when Jill Stein (Green) and Gary Johnson (Libertarian) meet the requirements to participate.

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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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