The Democrats and the Republicans are the twin parties of capitalism. As Gore Vidal said, American has one political party with two right wings.

We shouldn’t allow our energy to be siphoned off by the politicans for their egoistic agendas. That’s the first step towards compromising and selling out. Why do you think that now, when public revulsion against the Iraq war is at an all-time high, there are no massive anti-war demonstrations? It’s because the biggest anti-war groups threw their support to the Democratic Party, preferring to rely on their so-called “representatives” (who represent only themselves) instead of continuing to act directly through demonstrations, thereby disempowering their millions of supporters supposedly “represented” by a bunch of cynical, ambitious, power-hungry politicans riding on the back of the anti-war movement.

We have only so much energy. Instead of wasting it in electioneering for supposedly “progressive” candidates, we should focus on opposing regressive laws like the AETA and continuing to oppose factory farming, vivisection, hunting, and other forms of animal exploitation, and also the hideous destruction of the natural environment humans and other animals need to survive.

Electoralism is the death of activism. We should act ourselves instead of letting “representatives” act for us while we are inactive.

“Political freedom to vote for generally indistinguishable representatives of the same system is but a delusive ratification of a non-democratic political system.”–Douglas Kellner, Introduction to Herbert Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man.

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