--- Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > joanna bujes wrote: > > >I gag at the thought of voting for Kerry, but I > will because I think > >Bush and his gang are not merely "reacting" to the > passing of the > >post-war boom: I think they are looters and goons > who will continue to > >wreak destruction if re-elected. > > > >I don't see a huge diff between dems and repubs. > BUT Kerry won't > >privatize social security and won't make the > judicial appointments that > >the Bush gang will make. It's not much, but it's > something. The dems > >also set up different expectations for fairness and > legality than do the > >repub/neo-cons. > > Thank you. Such a vote not only doesn't pre-empt > organizing outside > the electoral realm, it probably makes it easier. > Our revolutionary > maximalists don't like to hear that - for them, it's > either all or > nothing. Which means it's usually nothing. > > Doug
As one of the revolutionary maximalists, I agree. I find it easier to live, work and organize under the Democratic Party faction than the Republican one. I think most people in the world at large would agree. Maybe most of us aren't as masochistic as the Repugs believe us to be. For the abolition of wage-slavery, Mike B) ===== **************************************************************** You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
