A Socialist Crashes the 2016 Presidential Debate
** This article was published in TruthOut October 13, 2016 ** Usually the US presidential debates are more about personalities than politics. The phony Commission on Presidential Debates , deeply in the pocket of Democratic and Republican parties, serves as a fig leaf to mask the shamefully narrow discussion that passes for democracy in “The Greatest Country On Earth”™. But living in the twenty-first century, we do not have to accept the limitations that those in charge would use to hem us in. With technology at our service, we can present a real, broader debate. According to imperial decree, we are only allowed to hear from the two candidates that represent Wall Street and corporate America. Both the Democrats and Republicans have a long history of supporting pro-corporate, anti-labor policies, with initiatives that promote racism, sexism, exploitation and environmental destruction. How do we know? Because together those two parties have been running the country for