And now for Gore?

Gary Bramstedt gbfoto at best.com
Sat Sep 5 09:36:56 PDT 1998



>Chris, aside from what I read as a thoroughly myopic sense of what
>Gore's about -- see the Nation magazine's July critique for example
>-- I don't know how you'd justify this statement below given your
>strong sentiments on behalf of int'l regulation of K.
>
>> From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org>
>> Subject: And now for Gore?
>> I have been impressed but also a little surprised at the forebearance of US
>> contributors to discuss Clinton. Why gossip about what was obvious? I
>> presume was the feeling. Plus a sense that while you would not want to
>> campaign for him, he was better than his predecessors...
>
>No, it was always much easier to fight the global neo-liberal onslaught
>when led by Reagan/Thatcher and Bush; as Clinton turned to
>promoting Nafta, Gatt, IMF/WB recap and all the rest, any residual
>integrity in the Democratic Party evaporated and the tiny
>liberal-left contingent had to turn to the Far Right for anti-neo-lib
>alliances. Clinton, the Wall Street Journal said before his
>reelection, is the best president corporate America ever had.
>Precisely because as a Democrat he eviscerated the left flank. This
>goes for any number of issues, not just global political economy...
>
>P.
>
>From my own experience I had a similar outlook as yours, Chris: ending
the Reagan/Bush era was VERY important and I voted for Bill (once). When he moved to the right of the R's I left the Democratic party after 30+ years and re-registered as GREEN (I could probably NEVER vote "R". The vote still is very important to me: I'd like to see 90%+ voter-turnouts with the majority voting AGAINST the D's and R's. Some of garbage that is played out on the political screen is designed to turn people off on voter participation, I believe. The enclaves with high concentrations of the "captains of industry and finance", for lack of a better description, always have high voter turn-outs. They know the importance.)

So for me Bill was the catalyst that moved me, as Parenti would say, from a position of "liberal-complaint" to "radical analysis"... Now I have a little clearer idea in what I can do. I think you both are correct...

GLB



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