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The Opium Of The Masses (Voting)

http://www.countercurrents.org/kantar241008.htm

Excerpt:

When we place our political energy into elections, power and privilege always win while our movements die. In our country, voting is the opium of the masses.

When we cast our ballots for the McCains and Obamas of this country, blood continues to be shed on the battlefields of justice, not only around the world as the US continues its imperial crusade to protect the world from the threat of democracy, but at home as well in America's prisons, hospitals, factories, courts, ghettos, working neighborhoods—in essence, on America's "main street."

We cannot be, in good moral conscience, participants in this deceitful and superficial process legitimizing crimes of the powerful and an economic system erected for the wealthy. "After all, is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded?" [4]