[Peace-discuss] Illinois elections

[C G Estabrook]

Both the only anti-war candidate, David Gill, and the candidate of the 'intelligence community' [CIA et al.], pro-war Jon Ebel, seem to have been beaten in the March 20 primary for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Illinois' 13th Congressional district. In this gerrymandered district, Londrigan got 24,000 votes: Jones got half that; Gill got 8,000; and Ebel 7,000. 

But the winner, DNC candidate Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, is pro-war - and should be opposed. It seems the only way to do that is to support (and vote for) the Republican incumbent, Rodney Davis.

Davis' predecessor, Republican Tim Johnson, was elected as a pro-war candidate. (I ran against him as a Green.) But in office, Tim changed his mind, and went so far as to join a suit against the illegal invasion of Libya.

Given that we must oppose the Democratic party's continuing hysterical war provocations against Russia (and China) - from 'Russiagate’ on - AWARE should support Davis against a pro-war Democrat and urge him to follow his predecessor's example.   

Control of the House of Representatives shouldn’t be turned over to the Democrats - wretched as the Republicans are - because the Democrats have allied with the war party, terrified of Trump’s musings (which helped him win) on peace and non-intervention in the campaign (which he so far has not followed up in office).

It apparently takes a foreigner to see the matter clearly. John Pilger wrote before the election, "The CIA has demanded Trump not be elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he not be elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he not be elected. Something is up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Russian president Putin, then with China’s president Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire...”

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