If I were a US citizen, I'd vote for a third-party candidate: Jill Stein (Green Party) or Rocky Anderson (Justice Party)

Tired of Republican (Romney-Ryan) and Democrat (Obama-Biden) doublespeak, lies, and rhetoric??? How about third-party candidates?!?! 

Truth be told: the dominant parties in the US — the Republican Party and the Democratic Party — are creations of, and will protect at all costs, the vested interests of the US Military-Industrial-Wall Street Complex! Thus, breaking the Republican/Democrat duopoly in this best-ever-democracy-money-can-buy has been long overdue.  

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Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party are the most relevant, the most sensible, and the most important candidates in and for the upcoming US elections, for the world's present conditions, and for humanity's future.

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Update, 30 October 2012 (HT: JH)

I let Chris Hedges expound on my opinion: 

The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us. And if we do not immediately engage in this battle we are finished, as climate scientists have made clear. I will defy corporate power in small and large ways. I will invest my energy now solely in acts of resistance, in civil disobedience and in defiance. Those who rebel are our only hope. And for this reason I will vote next month for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, although I could as easily vote for Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party. I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”—or failing to vote at all—is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

All the major correctives to American democracy have come through movements and third parties that have operated outside the mainstream. Few achieved formal positions of power. These movements built enough momentum and popular support, always in the face of fierce opposition, to force the power elite to respond to their concerns. Such developments, along with the courage to defy the political charade in the voting booth, offer the only hope of saving us from Wall Street predators, the assault on the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry, the rise of the security and surveillance state and the dramatic erosion of our civil liberties.

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any,” Alice Walker writes.

It was the Liberty Party that first fought slavery. It was the Prohibition and Socialist parties, along with the Suffragists, that began the fight for the vote for women and made possible the 19th Amendment. It was the Socialist Party, along with radical labor unions, that first battled against child labor and made possible the 40-hour workweek. It was the organizing of the Populist Party that gave us the Immigration Act of 1924 along with a “progressive” tax system. And it was the Socialists who battled for unemployment benefits, leading the way to the Social Security Act of 1935. No one in the ruling elite, including Franklin Roosevelt, would have passed this legislation without pressure from the outside.