Chomsky fears "the people around Bush are very deeply committed to dismantling the achievements of popular struggle through the past century�the present group in power is particularly cruel and savage in this respect."
The people around Bush are cruder and franker about their intentions to dismantle the achievements of popular struggle than the Democratic Party, so they have been less successful and will be voted out of the White House in November.
On 90% of the issues the Republicans are worse than the Democrats, but, on the rest, the Democrats manage to deliver bigger blows against workers than the Republicans. The tragedy is that the impacts of the issues on which the Democrats outdistance the Republicans in the rightward movement are often more devastating than the others on which they are better than the Republicans. Moreover, if the liberal elite manage to help elect John Kerry by neutralizing the main left-wing electoral alternative to the Democratic Party and allowing Kerry to run to the right of Bush, e.g., on fiscal discipline, the occupation of Iraq, etc., they can move both the Democratic and Republican Parties to the right -- just imagine what Democratic and Republican candidates we will face in 2008, 2012, and later! -- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
