Does it make any sense for people to keep voting for what they protest against?

In these Corporate States of America, elections function as a barometer for the corporate-state to frequently measure the actual level of societal dissidence. No other polls matter.

Street demonstrations and civil disobedience haven't had any effect — haven't produced desired change — because near all the demonstrators have later corporate obediently supported the corporate money manufactured Republican and Democrat candidates. Elections have only been serving to provide proofs positive that a supermajority of participants (voters voting) either affirmatively support, or they meekly acquiesce to having "our government" continue to do unto others and to themselves whatever the sociopathic corporate persons decide.

In past elections approximately half the eligible voters have refused to vote, but the choice to abstain registers as being an acceptance of what is — an acquiescence to corporate persons deciding what will be done; how it will be done; and to whom it will be done. Not voting is effectively a cowering slave's "Yes Massa!" vote.

We will have definitely reached the time to discard any and all consideration for the possibility of using elections for some good purpose if the electorate — in this time of Obamanable transparency — continues to behave in a normatively uneducable manner, as it has been corporate obediently "educated" to be. If voters continue to be the mindless mass they have been, then the corporate party could switch the labels on the ballots for its two 2012 candidates and we'd see Tea Party voters voting for Obama and "progressive" voters voting for bat shit, because the only real difference between the corporate party's Republican and Democrat candidates is which fools their corporate branding fools every time.

2012 provides what could be a truly historic opportunity to begin to use elections for a good purpose — mass protest — a majority voting for any whomevers the individual voters actually trust (likely to be mostly write-ins) indicating the various alternatives that individual voters believe the solution could and should be, but not voting for any of the corporate party's Republicans or Democrats. Support for people's party candidates would be most productive.

It's time to use elections for something other than a struggle between corporate collaborating liberals and conservatives fighting over which should get more rewarded for perpetuating perpetual war than the other; which should get more rewarded for increased ruthlessness in economic exploitation than the other; and whether catastrophically changing weather patterns should be (R) denied or simply (D) ignored.

The majorities participating in American elections have carelessly and callously discarded elections as a means to any good end. It's a time ripe now for good intentioned people to seize an exceptional opportunity to use elections for revolutionary purpose. It's time for them to begin to put the ballot to good use, before the bullet becomes the only means available.

It's time for protesting people to sensibly productively put their votes to work in a people's party that works for what people want — a people's party that is a true opposition to the corporate crimes that people have been protesting against.

The complete transparency that the deep depravity of Obamanation has provided has also provided a narrow window of opportunity for natural persons to begin to use elections for the good purposes they always could have, but haven't. It's time to use elections to register a protest that must be taken seriously — a firm majority forcefully voting for **NONE** of the corporate party's (R) & (D) candidates.

Protest votes are the only votes that are not wasted!

Jill Stein for President 2012:

www.jillstein.org