On NPR, after his speech, an announcer asked, "Shouldn't Al Gore have said something to put Jesse Jackson in line?" since Jackson is still making noises about voting rights and the rule of law and election fraud and other minor issues. THIS is the climate that Gore's abject concession guarantees.
Face it, without the backing of the Democratic Party--which, unlike the Left, actually has an organized power base--there will be no serious opposition to the New Disenfranchisement.
People are going to get exercised about lacking the power to vote? Hey, remember? -- Most people don't vote anyway --.
We have all kinds of happy opportunities "now" that the corruption of US institutions has been made clear? -- People know this already --.
What has to be overcome is the massive sense of alienation, of the idea that ordinary people can do nothing to change the system. Rather than help anything, Gore, Bush, the Rehnquisition, the Rep and Dem party structures, the media, the whole bunch have only reconfirmed the power of a corrupt Establishment.
We need VICTORIES. And I would have included a self-interested, cynical Democratic Party attack on 21st Century Crow as a victory. But this is just another loss.
Note to socio-political-gender threaders: Don't get me wrong, I think Al Gore is perfectly in his right to enjoy taking it up the ass, either figuratively or literally. Why, if he wants to be loved up by Alan Greenspan, say after a nice lobster-champagne picnic, say while reading passages from "The Fountainhead" ("The building's gonna blow! It's GONNA BLOW!!"), say with Barbara Walters looking on, why, he should go for it. Just as long as he stays the hell out of public life.
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: Swan Song Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:32:03 -0500
Sure was, and I've forgotten it already. But I bless Al for his very blandness and bogus bonhomie. He didn't leave the Republicans any handholds. There's no way the GOP can cry foul and say Gore's undercutting their guy. I have every confidence the Bush Administration will be virtually DOA and that W will prove the greatest presidential fuckup of all time. The trick will be for the Democrats to give him enough room to do so -- for them to be quietly obstructionistic without coming across as harshly adversarial. Gore's exit, chuckling, routine makes for a good start. Carl
I'm not sure about W's impending political death. We shouldn't forget that Cheney is a very smart guy, and W has been thru the experience of working with a legislature not under his thumb in Texas.
mbs
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