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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Jean Bricmont</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">·September 29 at 12:51 AM</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">21 reasons why supporting the U.S. establishment is worse than voting for a third party; Contrary to the guidelines that the establishment spinmeisters regurgitate to submit the left, here are 21 things that are actually much crazier, selfish, stupid and privileged than voting for another party: </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">1. Support a two-headed and one-party system in the world’s most powerful government, which has been the scene of endless wars and ecocides, and which led humanity to extinction ...</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">2. Continue to support a political system that is fully owned and run by the rich, leaving zero effective influence on American politics in the hands of ordinary Americans and immense influence in the hands of the very rich.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">3. Continue to support a system that constantly deceives the American people to consents to oppressive neoliberal exploitation in their country and blood neoconservative bellicism abroad, two practices that always hurt the poorest groups and the most disadvantaged.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">4. Continue supporting a two-headed single party system, where one head always pushes as far as possible to the right when it is in power and the other head never turns things back to the left, even from an iota when she is.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">5. Continue supporting a political establishment that rehabilitates war criminals like George W Bush, Bill Kristol, David Frum and John Bolton while demonizing those who refused to vote for a bellicist.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">6. Supporting a political party that has continued to attack Donald Trump from the right in terms of foreign policy, pushing him to escalate the cold war tensions with Russia and hysterically screaming if he makes any move de-escalate wherever it is.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">7. Support a political party that seeks to cooperate all leftist populism and transform it into support for an establishment that encourages war and oligarchy while denying Americans the same social safety nets as everyone enjoys in all the other great countries of the world.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">8. Supporting a party that claims to support press freedom while welcoming Trump’s extradition of Julian Assange, a measure that, if successful, will cripple press freedom worldwide and make it impossible to ask Accounts to the world's most powerful government.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">9. Supporting a political party that has passed Trump’s mandate to galvanize his base around the CIA, psychopathic, and FBI, which oppresses the minority and hits the left, while doing everything possible to eradicate any leftist mind in his ranks.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">10. Continue to support a media structure that strives everyday to deceive Americans to support their own impoverishment as weapons of war are spread all over the world at great expense.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">11. Support a political establishment that promises slow and progressive change, but actually doesn’t bring any change, as our species slides off the extinction cliff, first removing the poorest and most marginalized.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">12. Claiming that foreign policy simply doesn’t exist, or if it exists, claim that Joe Biden isn't a long-standing bellicist who spent his entire campaign attacking Trump because he wasn't sufficiently bellicist in the most areas of international conflict.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">13. Ignore the fact that both sides are working to support the threatening cold war escalation against Russia and China, a campaign on several fronts whose complexity increases the likelihood of something going wrong cataclysmically even more than the last cold war.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">14. Claiming that a party that has done nothing for U.S.’s poor communities is not directly responsible for the poverty, police brutality, massive incarceration, exploitation and oppression these communities face today</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">15. Pretending that things have become again like before Trump’s presidency would not only be a return to the conditions that created Trump's presidency.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">16. Claim that Obama, who destroyed Libya, devastated Syria, facilitated Yemen’s rape, intervened in Ukraine, maintained and expanded all Bush's most depraved policies and did nothing for the people who did it elected, was a good president.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">17. Continue to support a political system where everything only gets worse, whatever the oligarchic puppet Americans elect.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">18. Put your head in the sand and pretend everything will be fine once a Democrat is in charge, once again.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">19. Supporting a joke party with fake primaries who are always rigged to ensure the victory of the safest oligarchic puppet instead of pushing for something that looks like a true democracy.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">20. Promote the lie that if you continue to do something that has never, never worked, this time it could produce different results.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 18.75px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">21. Bringing people back to sleep when the only thing that can help ordinary people is that they start waking up and using the force of their number to force a radical revolutionary change.</div></body></html>