I live in the District of Columbia, so for me there is no problem. Trump has zero chance of taking the District's small pot of electoral votes, so that for any socialist in the city to vote for the hopelessly compromised bidenharris ticket--who are already "reaching out across the aisle" to achieve "reconciliation" with the Intelligent Conservative--should be out of the question. I'm voting for Howie Hawkins.
Trump's Bonapartist conspiracies, however, do exceed even the worst excesses of Nixon and threaten the raddled old Constitution itself, including the right to vote. I do believe that voting is a fundamental right, though a socially necessary one, not a divinely appointed one, so merely to purchase the chance of more elections, as problematic as that certainly is, might be worth the moral cost of voting, in cases where the electoral outcome is in doubt, for what is clearly a reactionary stinker of a Democratic "team." There is also the matter of the pandemic, which could be conquered by just about any traditional bourgeois government, but will probably not be by whatever quadruple amputee fiasco Trump winds up running. It should be "crystal clear" however--as politicians used to say--that the Hardingesque "normalcy" people think they'll get from bidenharris isn't going to happen. I think Covid will be overcome if "normal" governance is restored, but the economic crisis can't be, and all hell is likely to break loose once this becomes obvious. We have only begun to see the impact--the panic that will afflict a bidenherris gov't once it becomes obvious just how futile the neoliberal panacea of a "rainbow of entrepreneurs" (of varying ethnicities and sexual identities) really is may surprise everybody. This is especially true when "police reform" in all likelihood will consist of continuing the deployment of federal elite police locally nationwide but under a cosmetically different Democratic "brand." That is the only strategy that will permit the elimination of the current SWAT &c subsidies and lavish grants of military hardware while still pursuing "law and order" with ever-greater vigilance. Whole budget lines could be whacked and the result trumpeted as reform, while the money poured into "police reform" would permit the expansion of all that in a far more centralized and potentially dictatorial manner. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#578): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/578 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76287369/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
