Subcomandante Marcos Quotes
In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
Marcos, Subcomandante. The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos. Edited by Nick Henck, AK Press, 2018.
Referring to the fact that unpledged delegates tipped the balance against him in several states where he had won the majority of delegates in the 1988 Democratic Presidential primary elections:
In 2012, the Republican party had shifted to the right and was split between two factions. None of the 4 leading candidates had the support of a majority of the activist Republicans who vote in Primary elections. The then started to vie with each other for the most conservative elements of the party and did so by attacking the other candidates, making moral pronouncements and attacking President Obama. None of them offered any positive programs or solutions to the problems they claimed existed, and the attacks on the others were always that they were “really not conservative” and “could not get elected.” The result was that all the candidates negatives rose.
His unusual theory was that if government could or did not do much to affect the economy, there would be no reason for a large corporation to invest money in electing a particular party or candidate. Therefore the way to get the influence of big money out of politics is to reduce the role of government drastically. Paul was one of the very few Conservative politicians who would publicly state that the reasons that corporations made campaign contributions was to buy political favors, favorable legislation or tax treatment. If corporate investments did not pay off for the company, shareholders would not tolerate spending investment money for a particular political philosophy as most companies have shareholders representing the range of American political opinion and their investments should pay off to the bottom line—profits.
Her then opponent in the Democratic Primary race for the Presidential numeration, Barak Obama, was captivating many voters by describing all the reforms and changes he would make if he were president. Clinton, with more experience had, as first lady, tried to pass a Health Reform Bill and various special interests mobilized to stop it. The Democratic voters chose Obama. He passed a health reform bill narrowly, but was able to do little else that he had promised. Hillary was right.
On that date, a few days before the election the FBI Director publicly announced that he was reopening the Investigation into possible wrongdoing of Ms. Clinon's use of provate emails. He had earlier cleared her of all criminal wrongdoing and and he claimed that they had found a new computer that had some e-mails that they had not not yet examined for possible criminal activity. In addition WikiLeaks published on the Internet thousands of private e-mails that the Russians had hacked from her campaign chairman and her comittee. The two things started moving her trend down so that she only one the popular vote by almsot 3 million votes and she needed more to overcome the electoral collage gave to rural and small states. Ironically, the FBI went throught the contents of the computer and after the election announced that there was nothing there that incriminated Ms. Clinton, and there was no criminal activity found in all the hacked e-mails. And the FBI Director was chastized by the Republican Justice Department after Donald Trump took office for improperly making pubic investigation details before there were any findings. The FBI Director was subsequently fired but this and otehr reasons were given as the reason.
Questioning the wisdom of the then existing system of selecting major party presidential candidates by primary elections where even few party members vote.
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict, and an anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal globalization icon. Widely known by his initial nom de guerre Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (frequently shortened to simply Subcomandante Marcos), he has subsequently employed several other pseudonyms: he called himself Delegate Zero during the Other Campaign (2006–7), and since May 2014 has gone by the name Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (again, frequently with the "Insurgente" omitted), which he adopted in honor of his fallen comrade "Teacher Galeano". Marcos bears the title and rank of Subcomandante (or "Subcommander" in English), as opposed to Comandante (or "Commander" in English), because, he is subordinate to, and under the command of, the indigenous commanders who constitute the EZLN's Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee's General Command (CCRI-CG in Spanish).
