[Peace-discuss] Irrelevance of the US election

[David Green]

Dear friends,

I've become convinced that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY has become a kind of Frankenstein
monster, a clear and present danger to the community. I've also become
convinced that there is little realistic prospect that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY will
reform itself to become a responsible and accountable institution,
answerable to the community in which it resides.

The reason I have become convinced of this is that, unlike other
community institutions, when something bad happens in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, there
is no clear address for responsibility and accountability. If a bad
thing happened in some other community institution, there would be a
clear address for complaint and redress. You could call the Executive
Director. You could contact someone on the Board. Responsible people
would tell you what their plans were for redress. There would be a
meeting of responsible people, empowered to take action. The meeting
would discuss: why did this happen, what can we do and what will we do
to try to stop this from happening in the future. But when something
bad happens in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, there is no meeting of responsible people,
empowered to take action, for the simple reason that there can't be.
There's no such thing in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY as a group of responsible people,
empowered to take action. Because this is the case, there is a culture
of impunity in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. And this is intrinsically dangerous to the
community. If the Urbana police announced, "in this three block
radius, we are no longer going to enforce the law," that would be
intrinsically dangerous to the community. That hasn't happened in this
case, of course. But there is a culture in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY of being above the
law and beyond accountability, and that is intrinsically dangerous to
the community.

Therefore, since effective reform of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY seems impossible, I have
come to the conclusion that legal avenues should be explored to force
the DEMOCRATIC PARTY to shut down.


From: C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
>To: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> 
>Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:36 AM
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Irrelevance of the US election
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>Literally billions of dollars have just been spent on America's quadrennial quadrille - to reproduce the governmental status quo ante: a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, a Democrat-controlled Senate, and the same Chief Magistrate (as the framers of the 1787 Constitution referred to the president). 
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>Of course, economic and military policy - the USG's killing and looting - would hardly have been affected, even if other candidates had been elected: in America policy is insulated from politics.  
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>The show is produced for Americans, to convince us that we're deciding political questions, when of course we're not. The rest of the world, with some distance on the matter, seems to realize that more than we do. 
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>> http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/did-people-outside-the-u-s-care-about-our-election
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>> Did People Outside the U.S. Care About Our Election?
>> Choire Sicha | November 7th, 2012
>> 
>> While everything stopped here in America to watch the alleged nail-biter, or what the TV told us would be a nail-biter, how did the rest of the world react?
>> 
>> • "Today’s table topics: Egypt’s constitution-to-be, a proposed restaurant and shop curfew, the need for interior ministry reform. The U.S. presidential election? Not on the menu. 'We’ve got more than enough to worry about with Morsi,' the 42-year-old Somaya says, roughly chopping a bundle of molokheya, bitter greens common in the Egyptian kitchen. 'I didn’t even know about the U.S. election, and I don’t care. Whoever wins won't make a difference to us.'"
>> 
>> • "I confess to forgetting repeatedly about the US elections today. I was reporting on a mass hunger strike by some 700 prisoners demanding Kurdish education and court rights and an end to the isolation of PKK rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, serving a life sentence on an island jail. It is Day 55. They are surviving on sugar water and liquid vitamins."
>> 
>> • "Islamabad woke to news of an Obama victory with an unimpressed yawn…. 'The main thing people care about is the drone strikes,' said a TV cameraman, setting up his gear outside the residence of the US embassy’s chargé d’affaires. 'We all know that will not change whoever is in power.'"
>> 
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