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Hari Kumar writes:
> I doubt you can - or should - honestly say that of me. (I may be naive of
> course!) I - think - that I was the first on this list to say that Obama's
> election was useful to the workers as a means of discrediting the
> "blackness" card - of disillusioning those who saw this as the way out. That
> it would help to open the way for a realisation that not a "blackl" solution
> - but a 'socialist' solution - was required. A variant of the haning rope of
> Lenin for Henderson's social democrats.
>
If people see Obama as "a way out," it is in far greater measure because
he is a Democrat than because his father was Kenyan. Consider, would
working people have placed the same hopes in a black Republican like
Condi Rice or Colin Powell that they placed in any DLC Democrat, whether
black or white?
Thus the lesson that the Democratic Party is a party of capital which is
equally as committed as the Republican party to attacking the conditions
of working people, in the US and outside, is far more important politically
than "discrediting the blackness card" -- whatever that phrase means.
> I have no idea who Fred is - nor do I really care. What i do find difficult
> however, and thus do care about - is the sanctimony that so many of the
> (good) people on this list (led by yourself) as they tick off the
> deficiencies of this bill, and "write it off". Would they be in the shoes of
> many of my patients, perhaps they might think differently. Yes I did see the
> whining of those who would have to pay more that was before expressed on
> this list.
>
Never mind the political role of the Democrats etc, do you actually know
anything about the specifics of this bill which the dems have passed, or
are you just speaking about it through a hole in your hat? Forgive me if I
suspect the latter, especially when Ralph Nader has observed that the
bill, far from providing anything like universal coverage, merely forces
people to buy into "junk insurance" (his words) and offers no protections
from the depredations of the insurance industry.
Lajany Otum
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