[Peace-discuss] Pitfalls of identity politics

[C. G. Estabrook]

I have no brief for Obama, who I've thought for a while is a fraud (see "Illinois Anti-Warriors and the Attractive Senator" <http://www.counterpunch.org/estabrook09292005.html>).

But Hillary is at least as bad.  In a well-run state, she'd be visiting her husband, in prison for war-crimes in 
the Hague.

It's a testimony to how sophisticated our primary system is -- how far it is from democracy and how well it avoids any real political discussion -- that it will present us with an election in November between two PRO-war candidates, even though a majority in the country has been anti-war for some time.  That's an accomplishment beyond the dream of the crude 20th-century totalitarianisms. (And that minority in the country, the self-regarding "educated" classes, are complicit with this outcome.) --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:01:07 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Pitfalls of identity politics  
>To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>, peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>
>   So... because we cannot legislate morality and
>   sometimes lotsa folks will disregard laws, we'd
>   better leave them off the books until we're sure
>   they can be enforced? The facts are these: black men
>   got the vote 50 years before women... Native
>   Americans were not granted citizenship (in the
>   country formerly known as "theirs") until 1924...
>   and finally got voting rights in 1944. Another fact:
>   It's a damned good thing LBJ got JFK's legislation
>   passed, because that was the whole point of MLK's
>   movement... and smearing HRC for pointing that out
>   was dirty pool.
>    --Jenifer     
>
>   "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>     Ishmael Reed's Tour De Force on Race and Gender in
>     America
>     ...