adrienne lauby wrote: > > > What about you? Will anything major change in your personal life > as fascism grows stronger in the U.S.? >
Neither the Republican Party nor the Bush wing of it is maintaining a private army. Nor is there any threat whatever from a revolutionary working class. Hence throwing around the label "fascist" simply causes confusion on the left. It is disruptive of thought and action. The imperialist project _may_ be finding its global and domestic problems sufficiently complex to call for a continuation of such authoritarian measures as the Effective Death Penalty and Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996 and such deliberate disruptions of working-class life as the "Welfare Reform" of that year. Hence we are facing real threats to civil liberties (though they mostly come from the DP rather than the RP). And of course we are faced with Kerry's very believable pledge to vastly expand the war in Iraq. So we have our work cut out for us. But after Nov. 2 leftists can go back to their proper business of building a mass resistance movement, mostly around opposing the occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan but perhaps also in social struggles emerging from that, a process utterly disrupted by the hysteria over Bush that began building late in 2003. Glancing at the subject line, I don't think the question of _voting_ for Nader is of great importance; whatever good the Nader campaign might have done has already been accomplished (or not) in the involvement of local groups in outreach using the campaign. I intend to cast a blank ballot myself. I won't stay home because I want to keep my registration active. Carrol
