Juan Gonzlez: Sitting Out This Election Would Be a Mistake, Just as It Was in 1968

[Uncle Joe]

As voters across the United States head to the polls on Election Day, many face "a choice between two unsatisfactory candidates," says Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. This choice is especially "excruciating" for those "who are outraged by our government's continued support for Israel's yearlong genocidal assault on Gaza." He says the 2024 election has echoes of 1968, when many progressives sat out the election because of anger over Vietnam, but Richard Nixon's victory and ultimate expansion of the war proved to be disastrous. "It would take many years for some of us to realize we had made a big mistake in sitting out that election. … Making these decisions at the time of election may be difficult but sometimes necessary to do to open up the way for possible change in the future."

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.

[JohnSJ]

1. Kamala Harris is not an unsatisfactory candidate!!!

[GreenWave]

2. Juan Gonzalez meant some potential voters think that way.

I took it to mean not to sit on the fences thinking a don't bother to vote will get you closer to your goals.

[JohnSJ]

4. "many face "a choice between two unsatisfactory candidates," says Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzlez" He meant

exactly what he said.

and one wonders why he didn't use the 2016 election as an example?

Because his network did every thing in their power to encourage people NOT to vote for Hillary in the general election 2016.

[Gaugamela]

3. He's speaking to those who see it that way, and persuading them to vote for Harris.

It’s the same message Bernie Sanders made.

[JohnSJ]

5. After what Democracy Now did to Hillary in the 2016 general election......... suddenly he rises above it all, which is

he refers to 1968 and NOT 2016, which is what Chomsky did try to warn people about, while Democracy Now did just the opposite.

[Oopsie Daisy]

6. NOTHING that "Democracy Now!" says or promotes can be trusted. It just amazes me that this crap*

* can be found on DU. Their anti-Democratic party propaganda; and pro-terrorist/pro-Hamas propaganda; and their (not so) stealthy "cloak-and-dagger" antisemitism is abhorrent to every cell in my body. They are the equivalent (or worse) to the "Russia Today" (RT) propaganda.

[JohnSJ]

7. I think so too.

[sheshe2]

8. Exactly.

[brer cat]

9. I agree. It is disgusting that they are posted so frequently on DU.

[SunSeeker]

10. So will the pro-Palestinian protesters who interrupted Kamala's speeches do the same to Trump now?

Because that has worked so well for them...