[Peace-discuss] Don't send a Democrat to the House

[Robert Naiman]

I promise that if Betsy Dirksen Londrigan is elected to the House, she will
vote against unauthorized U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen. She
and her staff have given me personal commitments to this effect. I would
not be supporting her so strongly otherwise.

I promise that if Democrats retake the House, we will get more votes in the
House on war and peace. Just now the House Rules Committee blocked floor
consideration of Rep. Khanna's amendment to the National Defense
Authorization Act that would have prohibited U.S. refueling of Saudi
warplanes bombing Yemen. If Dems retake the House, Jim McGovern will be
chair of the Rules Committee. It's going to be an anti-war amendment
Jamboree.

I'm totally in favor of giving Democrats a hard time on war and peace. But
ultra-left electoral abstentionism hasn't done squat and isn't going to do
squat to give Democrats a hard time on war and peace. Democratic
politicians care about ultra-left electoral abstentionism like the ocean
cares about the discharge of a squirt gun. Some people may find ultra-left
electoral abstentionism emotionally satisfying personally, but then we
should understand that what is driving them is a selfish personal desire
for self-actualization, not an informed desire to make the world less
unjust.


Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1




On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> What would it mean to have “given up on electoral politics”? And why do
> you think I’d done it?
>
> But I have yet to hear an answer to the question, 'Which is to be
> preferred in 2019, a House controlled by the Democrat or by the Republican
> party, and why?'
>
> Your answer should be well-spelt, grammatical, and contain the term
> ‘Russiagate’…
>
> —CGE
>
> On May 22, 2018, at 10:43 PM, David Enstrom via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Bizzare and contorted about sums this string up bery nicely.  Carl I
> thought you and given up on electoral politics.  I guess I was mistaken.
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 8:28 PM Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> Which is more likely to hesitate at Deep State war-mongering, a
>> Republican House, or a Democratic one?
>>
>> John Pilger wrote in 2016, “The CIA, Pentagon generals, and the pro-war
>> New York Times demand Trump not be elected. 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…”
>>
>> The Democrats' panic at the threat that Trump would abandon Obama's war
>> provocations produced Russiagate.
>>
>> They should not be rewarded for that with control of the House.
>>
>> —CGE
>> _______________________
>
>
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