[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Re: Naked Capitalism on election
Jenifer Cartwright via Peace-discuss
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Tue Nov 11 12:05:39 EST 2014
Let's agree to disagree, David J. I LOVE the world y're describing, but voting 3rd party won't get us there (think Tea Party influence). The lesser of two evils is realistically what we must settle for, unless the electorate starts twittering worthwhile tweets, turns off Reality Shows, loses a whole buncha wt per voter, and actually does rise up. Not in my lifetime.
Re 2000 -- yes, what you say re post-election is right on, but that wasn't in the voters' hands, it was ultimately up to SCOTUS.
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From: David Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Re: Naked Capitalism on election
And what you seem to fail to understand Jenifer, is that the republicans and the corporate dems are part of the SAME team, think good cop / bad cop routine.
People are sick and tired of being sold out by the dems.
A third party AND running good Working class people ( NOT
millionaires like Sam Rosenberg, etc ) in the dem primaries is
what needs to be done.
BOTH need to be done, so that if the good working class dems are
beaten by the corporate dems in the primaries, people will have
the option of voting against the corporate dems in the general
election.
Einstein was quoted once as saying that the definition of
insanity is to continue to do the same thing over and over again
and expect different results.
Hence your strategy of voting for any piece of shit corporate
hack with a
" D" next to their name has NOT been working. The dems have
been getting progressively worse every year since Bill Clinton
because they know that people like you will continue to vote for
them regardless how bad they become. They don't fear us, but
they do fear their corporate contributors.
This dynamic MUST be changed !
The only way that will happen is if targeted corporate dems who
have sold us out our faced with a sanction from THE PEOPLE by
being voted out, regardless if a republican wins. That is the
ONLY way it will change, in conjunction with electing working
class people in the dem primaries.
And in regards to Nader in 2000.....
You seem to be in denial about the 2000 elections.
That election was STOLEN via fraud, it had nothing to do with
Nader.
If the democrats were a REAL opposition party in a REAL
democracy, they would have called for general strikes and
massive protests to shut the country down until a re-run
election was held in Florida with international voting
observers.
But as we know, your precious Al Gore, rolled over when his
corporate masters told him to back off and the rest is history.
Of course to cover their collaboration and cowardice the
Democratic National committee began a " blame Nader " campaign.
And lastly, what makes you think the dems are not also cutting
social security, medicare, etc. ?
Would you like me to go into detail about that ?
David Johnson
On 11/9/2014 1:36 PM, Jenifer Cartwright via Peace-discuss wrote:
Absolutely, Mort Brussel, it's ignorance/failure to realize that as bad as the Dems are, the Repubs are far, far worse. Staying home or voting 3rd party is a vote for the Repubs, tho' you'll brag about doing that, as if it somehow makes you A Superior Person, instead of an ignorant show off. Get over yrselves -- this is not about you, it's a looming crisis (think 2000 and what the Bush presidency bro't us).
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> Get ready for WW III and loss of: food stamps; social security; supported healthcare; medicare; medicaid; unions; minimum wage; subsidized housing; environmental protection; widening of the income gap; The Middle Class.
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>It is hard for me to believe anything being expressed about why the election results occurred as they did, except that it is linked to the influence of money, media and ignorance. This is not to say that disgust at the present affairs of state was unimportant.
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>How admirable was the informative letter by David to the N-G, responding to the N-G commentaries on Illinois finances by Winkel, Dye and Nowlen. Many thanks. One hopes it will register in the public’s consciousness.
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>On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:44 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>The midterms were not a “wave election” for Republicans, and in fact left policies were adopted by voters. The Democrats did not lose because of technical factors like the electoral map, structural issues with their “coalition,” or even for the reasons put forward by emo-dems. Rather, the midterms were a protest against neo-liberal principles and policy outcomes successfully achieved by Obama and the dominant factions of the Democratic Party: An active protest against Obama’s redistribution of income to the rich, and a sullen refusal to take ObamaCare as the positive good that the political class, refusing to look out the windows as they talk on their cellphones on the Acela, are sure that it is. Finally, Republicans are no less despised than Democrats, and in 2016 it may well be their turn to be subject to the cycle of massacre. Only a cat of a different coat….
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>>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/midterms-2014-red-wedding-democrats.html
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