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Well, Joaquín, it's a little more complicated than that, and I assure you that I haven't touched weed since it went for $15/ounce...Yes, the organizers of the One Nation Working Together rally are going to promote voting Democratic, but to say that it's going to be thoroughly and completely a Democratic pep rally, well, not exactly. You should have heard what Ray Stiever, the president of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council (the CIO, which never merged with the AFL in NJ), said about Obamacare at the IUC convention on Thursday. It was blistering. And the criticism that so many of the on-the-ground organizers of Oct. 2 are expressing about Obama and the Democrats is hardly "thorough and complete pep rally" stuff. The key demand of the rally is "we want the change that we voted for," which is of course a clear and unequivocal statement that we haven't gotten it yet, and that it's about damned time. Joaquín, I agree with your basic point: in the real world, the Black community and the organized labor movement are not ready to break with Obama yet. I suspect that the same is true for other communities of color, with the possible exception of the Arab immigrant community. We have to work in that real world, and if socialists are going to earn the respect and trust of working people, we can't be out there trying to fill buses with a "yes, but..." attitude. What we have to do is to get working people, people of color, young people, etc., off of their asses, and begin to get them into the habit of taking action that doesn't involve a touch-screen in an anonymous voting booth. Once that baby step is taken, then I have a suspicion that working people have a few ideas of their own about what to do next. Tom Well, it IS going to be --guaranteed-- a completely and thoroughly a democratic party pep rally. Like, duh ... And anyone who says different should share whatever it is they've been smoking, 'cause it is undoubtedly more potent than what's in my bong. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
