[Peace-discuss] Letter to the News-Gazette, on the coming election

[Carl G. Estabrook]

How should those of us opposed to America’s eight wars and war provocations vote? We have one vote to influence US government policy in the next two years: that comes in next month’s election of a representative to the US House, in the seat held by Republican Rodney Davis.
Davis’ opponent is a conventional Democrat, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan. They generally agree on the neoliberal and neoconservative policies followed by all recent US governments, Republican and Democrat alike - policies that have produced more war and accelerating inequality.
Given a choice between two bad candidates, one should of course vote for the less bad. Here party affiliation makes the important difference, because the House is organized by parties, not the views of individual members. Of the two major political parties in America, the Democrats are the more pro-war today:
(1) their challengers for House seats include a large number of pro-war CIA and 'military intelligence' veterans;
(2) 'Russiagate' is their fantastical attempt to insure that Trump doesn't depart from the belligerence against Russia and China that characterized the Obama-Clinton administrations; and 
(3) they are employing identity politics to defeat those few anti-war votes in Congress (cf. Rep. Michael Capuano in Massachusetts).
The Democrats should not be given control of Congress. They are the greater evil - the greater threat of war - at the moment.
I’ll reluctantly vote for our feckless Republican Congressman, Rodney Davis, in order to forestall the Democrats’ gaining control of the House of Representatives.
—CGE
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