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I'm just amazed how the people on this thread can discussion Donald and Hillary and say nothing about the white nationalism the distinguishes one of them. Am I delusional or are you blind? http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-jill-stein-should-drop-her.html Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust <http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com> Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/> <http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > A.R. G wrote > > > Without weighing in on the merits of voting for neocon Clinton, I don't > think that is the gist of the argument. The argument is not that she > is the > lesser evil. It is that she is *considerably less evil* than her > opponent. > The argument is that Donald Trump is far, far worse than Clinton, as > opposed to say, Romney and Obama or McCain and Obama. In those > years, many > on the left foolishly backed Obama at the expense of building any > kind of > counterhegemonic pole by exaggerating the differences between Obama > and his > opponent. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let's say we pretend for a moment. Let's say we're the egregiously > over-paid freaks in the capital grounds who for years have honed their wits > doing the deep thinking about these things. They might say, well, we think > they're getting on to us. It's all becoming so transparent that even kids > in the playground are on to it. We need a REAL obfuscation this time. We > once had the Hollywood second-rate movie actor who though past it and well > on the way to terminal Alzheimers could still peddle crap like he did for > General Electric tv ads and on the silver screen for eight years, about > welfare queens, the war on drugs and supply side economics; we have had aw > shucks drawling Bill and welfare as we know it, NAFTA, the ending of > fig-leaf banking regulation and the blue dress for eight years; we've had > the snuggle bunny, befuddled George W. Bush, 'Homeland Security,' gutting > the Bill of Rights, 'mission accomplished', failed states and concealed > body counts for another eight years; we've had a black dude who was the > perfect foil for another eight years, the first 'person of color' and > Harvard Law Review editor and social worker with the comely family and no > political tracks behind him who from the time he came out of the band box > has been entirely in our side pocket, could be counted on to continue where > Bush and Cheny left off, and left the voters misty-eyed - - so that we > could lie and cheat and steal the be jabbers out of the big fat sovereign > entity enchilada US treasury from one friggin eight year stint to the next > - and counting? NOW what do we do? Why, of course, the 'You're fired' guy > on tv, he has said for years that he wanted to be president. Let's put him > up against the Hill, fill his tender ego so full it spews from his mouth > like three-day old vomit, Hillary, the first woman president, although > there have been 58 female leaders of their nations elsewhere and no big > deal by now, will surely beat the side-show joker and give us as her track > record incontrovertibly demonstrates everything we want and more, all the > way back to the White House laughing off the 'but-wait-a-minute,' > incredulous, gulled voter. And we'll leave all those poor, deluded slobs > wringing their hands, as they do every four years, over this yet even more > impossible contest between the two most despised of two 'lesser evils', and > pondering with great heaves and hos of thought over how they will use their > vote, which is virtually the only remaining, pitifully small vestige of > what may have once been slightly more credibly called a 'democracy,' and > which in better times to come if we squint enough at the distant > imponderables might be defined at a minimum as controlling one's own > destiny, more accurately as moving ever closer to substantive equality And > so we'll 9the WE that counts, that is, continue our journey with our > paymasters and if we hedge our bets right, us, with still impossibly more > of the swag. Of course. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/clayclai%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
