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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">So much about Betsy (*Ross*)
(*Everett*) Dirksen Londrigan is fake.<br>
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She's about as much in the family lineage of Everett Dirksen as
Donald Trump but don't read the fine print. And I'm sure that
Betsy Ross and John Prine are both proud of her.<br>
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She's not a politician, even though she is a hardened Democrat who
has been in politics for some 20 years including working for Dirty
Dick Durbin. And she's got that zomfg startled
deer-in-the-headlights Ocasio-whatever look that is so fashionable
with Dems today.<br>
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Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:44425D1A-379E-4118-9AEC-B4B0A3B60E71@illinois.edu">
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: system-ui,
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sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">How should those
of us opposed to America’s eight wars and war provocations vote?
We have one vote to influence US government policy in the next
two years: that comes in next month’s election of a
representative to the US House, in the seat held by Republican
Rodney Davis.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system,
system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color:
rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);" class="">Davis’ opponent is a conventional Democrat,
Betsy Dirksen Londrigan. They generally agree on the neoliberal
and neoconservative policies followed by all <span
class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family:
inherit;">recent US governments, Republican and Democrat alike
- policies that have produced more war and accelerating
inequality.</span></p>
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font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui,
".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33,
41); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans:
2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Given
a choice between two bad candidates, one should of course vote
for the less bad. Here party affiliation makes the important
difference, because the House is organized by parties, not the
views of individual members. Of the two major political
parties in America, the Democrats are the more pro-war today:</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">(1)
their challengers for House seats include a large number of
pro-war CIA and 'military intelligence' veterans;<br class="">
(2) 'Russiagate' is their fantastical attempt to insure that
Trump doesn't depart from the belligerence against Russia and
China that characterized the Obama-Clinton administrations;
and <br class="">
(3) they are employing identity politics to defeat those few
anti-war votes in Congress (cf. Rep. Michael Capuano in
Massachusetts).</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">The
Democrats should not be given control of Congress. They are
the greater evil - the greater threat of war - at the moment.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">I’ll
reluctantly vote for our feckless Republican Congressman,
Rodney Davis, in order to forestall the Democrats’ gaining
control of the House of Representatives.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">—CGE</p>
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