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Jeremy Paxman the interviewer is obsessed with that point and wont let it go. I think Brand makes him look rather silly.

On edit, sorry noticed the common dreams article was just the article and not the interview with Paxman.

trying to get progressives not to vote, thank you very much.

Jeremy Paxman is that you?

then tell people not to vote?

Don't tell me that voting doesn't change things. When Tea Partiers started voting for what they wanted, look what happened!

politicians in Congress will wait until election time to do anything about the voter suppression. They will make promises about what they will do after the election to get votes and after the election they will go back to the do nothing Congress because it is not election time mode. I would never tell anyone not to vote, but I can certainly understand why people wouldn't vote. I am almost there myself. I may try working and voting outside the two party system, but even that doesn't really accomplish much. I can completely understand why people would decide not to vote. The whole system is corrupt and until we get a new system we the people will not be represented.

I vote for democrats. I recommend people vote. I don't support false equivalence narrative in the media.

I understand that common practice here is to stone anyone who dares to contradict that sacred cow as some secret evil repbublican dupe....

The kneejerk rituals here get tiresome don't they?

with their vote, have a glitch in their logic process. Most times I think it is partly a petulant emotional reaction; cutting off their noses to spite their faces.

Even in a pseudo democracy like ours, Democrats clearly support human rights, and better environmental policies than republicans.

Some pluses are always better than many minuses when it comes to the progress of the human condition. Better two steps forward than a thousand steps back.

It's one thing to be disgusted with Presidential Candidates and write in a different name or vote Green or whatever. But at the local level its too important not to get familiar with who is running for town or city council, for police chief, judges, school board mayor and governor plus House and Senate Reps. So much focus on Presidential Elections while the rot starts at the bottom. And, the Mid-Term elections are important...yet get ignored except by the power interests who can get their voters out mostly on social/religious issues.

While indulging in every benefit that system provides.

And, he's just not funny

between sips of imported vanilla chai tea with freshly shaved nutmeg.

a more fair distribution of money.

nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites."

So true - I don't disagree with the idea of a "revolution" but do think the stakes are too high (with crazy end timers actually winning seats) not to vote. I get that we may have to hit rock bottom in order for the revolution to materialize but just can't stop myself from voting against the nuts.

and then never seeing her again face to face?

But I see this reaction to it from every airhead on FaceBook who has never really followed, studied or understood politics: They verbally distance themselves from it, probably because they are so under informed on the subject they don't know which politicians are safe to admit to supporting. So they condemn the whole lot of them in an attempt to hide their ignorance and appear superior. It's too hard to think about or follow so they just would rather resign themselves to the quick physical solution of throwing the "bums" out rather than observing the political process, reading up on politics and forming an educated and productive (as opposed to destructive) opinion.

Edit: Okay, I just watched the video. He does seem to understand some key issues and, to an extent, I see his point. But I don't know if I'd want to follow a comedian into battle.

So, he's just another glib talker saying, "Let's you and him fight." He may renounce the "current paradigm," but offers no alternative one or any idea on how an alternative paradigm might come to be.

I'm afraid that Russell Brand's vision leads nowhere. Too bad. He's a good talker.