Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > interesting. thanks for this run-down, as i'm still trying to figure out how > i feel and what i'm going to do re: obama.
I think this is a false question. Conmsider: For whom is it a question? Answer: For those small number of leftists who do not automatically support the DP nominee. If all such leftists actied in concert as one would it conceivably make a difference in the election? NO NO NO. In reference to electoral politics all leftists who think it an issue amount to so few that they will NEVER affect outcomes; as electoral forces they are the mere trivia of history. Probably we are mere trivia anyhow, but (just for speculation's sake) how might we in some far-fetched but not wholly impossible way make a difference? By doing what we can under the present difficult circumstances to build the foundations (or fragments of the foundation) for a popular mass movement when and if the concrete possibility of such arises. We will probably be wasting ourselves in doing so, but it is not an absolute certainty that we will. While leftists who vote, work, etc. for the DP are not just throwing their vote away. They are throwing their lives away. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
