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

[E. Wayne Johnson]

So much about Betsy (*Ross*) (*Everett*) Dirksen Londrigan is fake.

She's about as much in the family lineage of Everett Dirksen as Donald 
Trump but don't read the fine print.  And I'm sure that Betsy Ross and 
John Prine are both proud of her.

She's not a politician, even though she is a hardened Democrat who has 
been in politics for some 20 years including working for Dirty Dick 
Durbin.  And she's got that zomfg startled deer-in-the-headlights 
Ocasio-whatever look that is so fashionable with Dems today.


Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
>
> 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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