Neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party represent majority of Americans

 Two of the candidates to contest Obama and Romney at the US elections told RT about the challenges minor parties face in their bids to offer Americans an alternative voice, and the crucial significance of breaking the media blockade to deliver it.

 ­Following the debate of third-party presidential candidates, RT spoke with two of those alternatives – Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein. Both candidates believe that it is crucial to give voice to the vast majority of the American people, who want to see real changes.

Anderson said that he, like most Americans, wants to stop building an “imperial presidency” and stop the “shredding of US constitution.”

“I think people in the Democratic Party who stand behind the president have totally lost sight of principle,” he said. “What they are doing is anti-American and subversive.”

 Anderson believes he, as well as any other alternative candidate, would have been able to swing votes in his favor had he been allowed to challenge Obama and Romney on national television.

 “They have been basically arguing who is going to build the military the most, who is going to drill on public lands and offshore the most, whether we’re going to send small arms or large arms to Syria,” he said. “And we are saying things that you’ll never hear from the Republicans or the Democrats, and we’re saying what reflects what the majority of what the American people want.”

 The presidential debates are tightly controlled because the top two parties are afraid of fresh ideas reaching the ears of the electorate – which could turn the US political system upside down, but prefers to stay at home due to the lack of any real political choice.

“In fact one out of every two American voters is going to be staying home from this election because they know neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party represent them,” Jill Stein told RT. “So the establishment parties are quaking in their boots that the word will get out, and in fact if it does, there are enough people to turn the result of this election on its head.”

 The corporate media is not giving third-party candidates any opportunity to express their positions, as the presidential debate commission is owned and operated by the Republican and Democratic parties, Anderson explained.

She called the debate between Romney and Obama, controlled by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a “farce of a debate that makes a mockery of our democracy.”

 “It is not so much the candidates, the alternative candidates who are being locked out – it is the American people that are being locked out, because when a debate is controlled, censored really, by corporate America, by Wall Street, by the same economic elite that are sponsoring the political parties – we are not going to hear about the critical problems that the American people are facing,” she said.

 As Americans “are being thrown under the bus” a rebellion in the US is in full swing, but no corporate media will report on it, Stein said.

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