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Bill Astore's avatar

Readers here know I supported the U.S. Senate campaign of Matthew Hoh, a USMC combat veteran and former State Department official who resigned in protest against the Obama Surge in Afghanistan in 2009.

He ran with the Green Party against war and the military-industrial complex and earned just over 29,000 votes in North Carolina. He was not a "spoiler." Even if the Democrat had won all these votes and the Libertarian votes as well, she still would have lost to the Republican.

Matt inspired at least 29,000 people; he certainly inspired me. We need more people like him to run or we'll be stuck with the usual suspects forever.

We crawl before we walk before we run. There's a long way to go until we can effect real change in America, but we'll never get there if we stay crawling on our bellies before the so-called elites.

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Bob Graf's avatar

The fact that candidates like Matthew Hoh get only a tiny percentage of the vote speaks to the power and effectiveness of official state propaganda and the dumbing down of American society in general. These marginal candidates will never be able to surmount this obstacle.

America is a truly unique totalitarian state. There is no need for gulags, concentration camps, and other such methods of punishment and forced persuasion. People are happy to obey and watch a corrupt, incompetent, and morally bankrupt ruling elite destroy the country.

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