And, thank you, especially, for discussing the two-party dictatorship and delving into the false left/right paradigm. This is one of the least discussed topics in media, mainstream or alternative, which is befuddling, given the fundamental importance of critical electoral analysis. Despite the ebb and flow of low voter tides, million of U.S. people will still take to the polls in 2012, so we may as well speak plainly about our electoral system. And, as in the past two Presidential Elections, millions of liberals and progressives will admit to holding their noses as they cast a ballot for the lesser-of-two-evils instead of voting their consciences.

Yet, at this particular moment in history when scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters across the country are increasingly expressing disaffection with both major, corporate-driven, political parties, it’s remarkable how difficult it is, even today, to penetrate and lay bare this false left/right paradigm. This seems as much a cognitive question of our collective mass psychology as it is one of mass media complicity and its influence upon our decision-making. But we know the younger generations see through the falseness of the two-party system.

As Ralph Nader admits, thanks to Abby’s intrepid questions, the electoral “game is rigged.”

Abby Martin: “Well, do you think the game is rigged?”

Ralph Nader: “Well, of course: two-party dictatorship, completely rigged, right down to the Presidential Debate Commission, which is a fancy phrase for a private corporation created in 1987 by the Republican and Democratic parties to get rid of the League of Women Voters, which supervised Presidential Debates up to then, and to exclude anyone who they think should not reach tens of millions of Americans.”

This may seem an obvious question. But it’s very empowering to hear it asked plainly and answered so candidly by one of America’s great public citizens.

And, again, with increasing national and international attention upon the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street sit-ins across the nation, the Wisconsin mass-protests, the Keystone XL mass-protests, and the most recent October 2011 anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C., it’s remarkable this issue doesn’t come up to the forefront more prominently. Perhaps, it’s important to consider who funds our mass-protests and the agendas of those funders as well as considering the hopes and aspirations of the actual protesters on the ground.

Within our current media discourse, anti-war and anti-corporatocracy critical analysis is fine, it seems, but not critical electoral analysis, apparently, because that may threaten the Democratic Party. And without meaningful discussions about the regressive nature of perpetuating a restrictive two-party system, liberals and progressives are held captive by a Democratic Party increasingly beholden to corporate interests. And radical voices to the left of them are completely excluded from the national discourse.

This is not a partisan issue. This is a question of the U.S. people having an electoral system, which truly reflects the popular will of its people.

So, it’s up to honest journalists and writers, it’s up to citizen and independent journalists, to cut through the false left/right paradigm, to expose inconvenient truths, and to help raise the consciousness of the masses to break out of our restricted two-party dictatorship.