The Jim Crow Five and the Coming Political War

[Max Sawicky]

. . . 
Of course there will be tensions between our forces on exact priorities at
each juncture, but the general theme of the deep radical democracy, whether
at the polling booth or in the workplace, is a powerful unifying call to
action.  Gore is now irrelevant; maybe he'll jump on board and be a useful
liberal martyr or we'll have to push his dead corpse out of the way. . . .

Poor Al.  Yesterday he was a vehicle.  Today he's
a dead corpose, and lord knows they're the worst
kind.  (cf. Living Dead thread).

More seriously, I am uncomfortable with the idea
of democracy as a leading issue because it is a
process thing.  My bias is that process stuff is
not very revealing to the public, and lends itself
to cliche too easily.  I would go further and say
what is fundamentally wrong with this great nation
of ours is not that the franchise is flawed.  It
is that the working people do not know their own
interest as a class, and this interest is reflected
not merely in their views of process, but of outcomes.

In particular, the priorities from my standpoint
would include the 'deep democracy' discourse, but
also full employment, labor rights, income security,
and health care.

Insofar as the outcome issues are ignored, the next
election will indeed narrow to a 'fuck you' vote that
does nothing more than return Democrats to power. To
do whatever.

mbs