Julie Levesque: Who Will Win the Elections?

"The Republicrats!" There is no democracy in the United States. American political life is dominated by one party with two heads, often called the Republicrats! Republicans and Democrats agree on core issues, and only argue on technicalities. Obama, who was portrayed as a peaceful savior in the last presidential elections, has demonstrated during his four years in office that he is not much different from his predecessor. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama's "war record" is worse than that of George W Bush. The civil rights of Americans have shrunk further in the last four years, and President Obama has shown that he is closer to Wall Street than to Main Street. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are more of the same, on key issues as Glen Ford explains: To any objective observer, the consensus that exists between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on the fundamental issues of war and peace, Wall Street dominance of American life, and fiscal austerity, has been made crystal clear in the two debates. In the absence of effective popular resistance to the duopoly of money, the economic and social crisis fails to create a corresponding political crisis for the rulers. As a result, there is nothing important for them to debate. But how are Presidential debates regulated? The history of the Commission on Presidential Debates sheds light on how and why other parties are excluded from the political debate, and kept away from the public's eyes and ears: The Commission on Presidential Debates is a private corporation headed by the former chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties. The CPD is a duopoly which allows the major candidates to draft secret agreements about debate arrangements, including moderators, debate format and even participants. The result is a travesty riddled with sterile, non-contentious arguments which consistently exclude alternative voices that Americans want to hear.