With all the media buzz, or in my mind distractions, about presidential elections going on now and that will escalate as we moved toward November 2012. I have an alternative choice over voting for the least objectionable choice for President. It is clear to me and others, that no matter who runs against President Obama, the president will win. The ‘powers that be’, Wall Street bankers, mega corporations and military establishment have already made that decision. President Obama’s is on track to raise a billion dollars in his reelection campaign. In the last campaign his biggest contributor was the investment powerhouse, Goldman Sachs and the powers to be seem to like him for letting the insurance companies write the new insurance bill, allowing Wall Street insiders to write the new investment banking law and keeping the wars and weapons growing. Who can beat him, Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney?

In other countries when the elections are predetermined and are democratic in name only people have come up an alternative to voting, not voting. People have successfully called for a boycott of voting.

In the so called last ‘democratic elections’ in Haiti about 25% of those eligible to vote voted. Why? The most popular political party Fanmi Lavala, the party of the first democratically elected president of Haiti, was barred. President Aristides had twice been elected by overwhelming number of Haitian only to find himself twice overthrown by US government forces. So in these recent elections people just did not vote and let the U.S. choice, a popular singer in Haiti who did not even qualify in the flawed primary election win. Why vote when you know the choice of the “powers that be”.

I can point to many other examples in Africa, Middle East and Central and South America where the best choice was not to vote.

In a true democracy voting should count. Many here in this country will say it does not matter but it is our political obligation to vote. I say a better choice, especially for a Presidential election is not to vote until democracy is restored in the U.SA. You can still enjoy all the entertainment and hype the media provides around Presidential election but a vote for democracy might just be not to vote.

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