On Dec 29, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > >> According to the Washington Post, a rough consensus expert >> guesstimate >> of the number of people who will vote in the Iowa caucus is 100,000. >> 8,400 is 8.4% of that. > > What about this part? > >>> And really, aside from the war, the guy is a racist reactionary. >>> Does that matter at all? > Racism is as racism does. Ever since Nixon (who in today's political terms would be a liberal Democrat) invented the War on Drugs and Affirmative Action forty years ago, the preponderant form of racism in the US has been, and still is the mass imprisonment of young black men on Drug Charges. The War on Drugs has likewise been the pretext for the steady increase in fascist-style policing and the complete emasculation of the Fourth Amendment.. The issue of racism is the issue of the War on Drugs. And except for the invisible Gary Johnson, that makes Dr. Paul the only *antiracist* and *antifascist* major party candidate on offer. To call him a "racist reactionary" is to behave like Stalin and the German KPD who called the German Social- Democrats "fascists" and justified the label, not by anonymous articles 20 years earlier in their newsletters but by their very real complicity in the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht.
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