Duopoly Busters: Chris Hedges says morally he can’t and won’t vote for the Democrats

If we don’t rebuild our movements, it doesn’t matter who we vote for. Power is the problem. We must organize to hold power accountable.As Ralph Nader pointed out, the last liberal president in America was Richard Nixon, not because he was liberal or out of conscience but because he was frightened of movements. That’s how we got OSHA, the mining safety act, the clean water act, most written by Nader.

There’s a scene in Kissinger’s memoirs where it’s 1971 and there are tens of thousands of anti war demonstrators. Nixon has put empty city buses all around the White House. And he’s standing at the window and says, “Henry, they are going to break through the barricades and get us.“

And that’s precisely where we want people in power to be.

We are not going to gain power through the Democratic Party, which does not function as a real political party and which stole the election from Bernie. It’s going to take a long time and begin from the ground up.

Just on a moral issue, I cannot vote for the Democratic Party, because I spent so much of my life in Gaza.... I spent 20 years of my life watching the violence and evil of empire, too much to come back and give them a pass.

I spend much of my life in prison and am well aware that over half my students wouldn’t even be in prison but for the Democratic Party. That’s personal — I just can’t sell those people out. And I won’t.

There does come a moment when we have to stand up on principle. Because if we don’t begin to stand up nobody else will. “— Chris Hedges in Eugene, Oct 3, 2018 @
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These are excerpts to a question. Listen to this answer beginning
1: 10:00 ... he is NOT promoting a boycott. He says to vote. But he says even if Bernie had won, he would have faced McConnell and “those troglodytes,” that massive movements are required.