Adolph Reed on "stupidity"

[Steve Perry]

uh, please review the clinton administration's accomplishments vis
a vis welfare reform and the environment and tell me what makes it
dumber to vote for a republican. it would be easier to make the
converse case, given what the clintonites wrought under cover of
"bipartisanship."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 3:46 PM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Adolph Reed on "stupidity"

"Jeffrey St. Clair" wrote:


> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > (Not since 1964 has a Democratic presidential candidate
> > received a majority of the white male vote.)
>
> And not since 1972 have the Democrats run a presidential candidtate worthy
> of receiving any votes.--jsc

I partly agree. (Qualification: though I voted for Democrats from 1952
through 1964, I *now* don't think they've run a candidate worth
voting for, at any time.) But the point of the factoid has to do not with
the reality of the Democratic Party but with its "image," which Reed
(and I) would argue these voters are rejecting -- an "image" of
being progressive in respect to race and gender.

Carrol