11-09-2016, 01:02 PM
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Zum Henker Defätist!!
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,216
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Originally Posted by Isbjørn
People are voting for third parties because they're tired of the neoliberal consensus, war in foreign countries, starvation wages, unemployment, lack of proper welfare services, debt, the endless money circus called American "democracy", and so on. It's not about protesting against the right and the left - the Democratic Party and the GOP are both right-wing parties that stand for the interests of the bourgeoisie. Clinton is not left-wing, just another neoliberal. Some left-wing candidates are Jill Stein and Gloria La Riva.
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I don't think a Norwegian communist is really qualified to say what Americans are voting against. We really are in fact sick of the actual parties.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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