"Why We Fight" director Eugene Jarecki on the Election 2008

"...The [war] machine does not care how well-meaning Barack Obama is, doesn't care how well-meaning the voters are who hope that Barack Obama can make change. The machine is a cutthroat instrument of power. ...A single candidate, up against the incredibly tangled corruption of this system, is hopeless. And they're made more hopeless by the fact that we are disengaged, because without a public mandate, somebody like Barack Obama will enter the White House - and...it's already happened in the evolution of his policy paradigms - he'll enter the White House without a mandate. And if he doesn't have a mandate, those enormous forces of power will give him a mandate. They'll give him a very clear mandate."

Eugene Jarecki, director of the film Why We Fight, speaks about how the influence of the military-industrial complex over elected officials makes it impossible for them to change the system if the voters don't put constant pressure on the officials before and after they are elected. In absence of such pressure, he says, "our vote is wasted."

Excerpt from Democracy Now, 20 Oct 2008. http://www.democracynow.org
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[palou411]

SMART GUY, very good points!!!

[crapteravy]

love this guy.

very important message!!!

[GGLebo23]

This man is my hero.

[mcfalberg]

Raising awareness is the first step.

[ComancheChiefSD]

All this is complicated multi-level deception spanning many decades of modern US/World history. In the center you have greedy financial interests of US and international bankers.

Average people are simply paid slaves who, however, can not buy anything from iPod to house without credit or loan. Average people are lied to about everything all the time!

I dont know where you start fixing things. But I believe we are approaching some culminating point. Something big is coming.

[mfatah281]

Excellent report!