{"id":45100,"date":"2016-08-04T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45100"},"modified":"2016-08-04T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:53:26","slug":"whitehead-voting-doesnt-matter-scheck-but-it-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45100","title":{"rendered":"Whitehead: &#8220;Voting Doesn&#8217;t Matter&#8221; Scheck: &#8220;But It Can!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Burlington, WA<br \/>\nAugust 3, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>This is why we need a new political party: <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=139809\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=139809<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There really isn&#8217;t much difference between Trump and Hillary: yes,<br \/>\none has a vagina and the other has a very big mouth. But The Donald<br \/>\ninvited Hillary and Bill to his wedding years ago. They have a lot in<br \/>\ncommon and run in the same circles.<\/p>\n<p>Both are deeply flawed and running as the nominees of two totally<br \/>\ncorrupt political parties both of which support wars based on lies.<\/p>\n<p>As Whitehead states, voting for the lesser of two evils is still evil.<br \/>\nThis year, Clinton has demonstrated her criminality for all but the<br \/>\nblind and Barbra Streisand to see while Trump keeps showing up<br \/>\nas a not very funny star of his own (Un)Reality TV Show.<\/p>\n<p>We can and must do better. Both Jill Stein and Gary Johnson offer<br \/>\nfar more integrity and constructive ideas than either of the two main<br \/>\ncandidates.<\/p>\n<p>If you think you are wasting you vote, think again. Some feel Stein<br \/>\ncould actually win: <a href=\"http:\/\/richardcharnin.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/27\/2016-election-model-stein-vs-clinton-vs-trump-vs-johnson\/\">http:\/\/richardcharnin.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/27\/2016-election-model-stein-vs-clinton-vs-trump-vs-johnson\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More important, by empowering one of the third parties with your vote,<br \/>\nyou are sending a message to the corrupt establishment that enough<br \/>\nis enough. We want&#8230;..we demand, something better and different.<\/p>\n<p>There is hope for the future. Tulsi Gabbard has shown she is bigger<br \/>\nthan her own party and provides inspiration to those who want to see<br \/>\nsomeone who speaks truth to power about our imperial ways.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I and many others have said, it is time for a political party that<br \/>\npromotes peace: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we have now with Trump and Clinton are one war party with<br \/>\ntwo wings. Americans have indicated they are fed up with these endless<br \/>\ninterventions that have failed at great financial, political and moral cost<br \/>\nto our nation. <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=139763\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=139763<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The campaigns of both Sanders and Trump reflected these deeply felt<br \/>\nconsiderations, however incohate. Sanders might have had greater<br \/>\nsuccess had he followed the Trump formula and more aggressively<br \/>\ntaken on Hillary for her many scandals and errors in judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has lost some of the momentum that he captured during the<br \/>\nprimaries by articulating the public&#8217;s disgust with the Establishment.<br \/>\nHis tendency to personalize every criticism and his petty, thin-skinned<br \/>\nbehavior means he is squandering his advantage over his corrupt rival.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who almost never votes for the very reasons expressed by<br \/>\nWhitehead in the article above, I say 2016 is a year that can make a big<br \/>\ndifference and lay the foundation moving forward for a better future.<\/p>\n<p>It may not matter (this year) who wins, but it does matter if you vote<br \/>\nfor a third-party candidate who captures your vision for a better America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}