On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:43:15 -0500 Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Of course Paul will never become President > > But let's fight for the right of 8,000 Dems to vote for him in Iowa anyway? Wow. Was there any question about their 'right' to do so? First I've heard. This is kinda breathtaking. > This left crush on Paul is the most vacant form of symbolic protest > politics I've seen in a while. Absolutely pathetic. Presidential > politics is such a consistent waste of time for people like us - it's > curious what new form it takes every four years. This one's a doozie > - a goldbug Randian. If somebody wanted to propose a complete ban on any discussion of electoral politics on any Lefty mailing list, I would support it. After all, I have a blog called stopmebeforeivoteagain.org. But since we do talk about it -- endlessly, like everybody else -- then the idea of Ron Paul as Lefty heartthrob seems a lot more interesting, as a topic of conversation, than say Romney vs. Obie. In the electoral arena, what options beside 'protest politics' do we have? It's a shadow-play, a batrachomyomachia of empty signifiers. How exactly should 'people like us' approach it? If your response is, "leave it alone," then I will if you will, Doug. -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com Any proposition that seems self-evident is almost certainly false. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
