Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Chuck0 wrote:
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> >If Gore is so in favor of
> >supporting the "rule of law," why doesn't he throw in the towel and
> >concede defeat?
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> I'm guessing that after a consultation with the ruling class, Gore
> will fold, in the interests of legitimacy and closure.
I hope they figure it out soon, because there are lots of people who are in a panic because they don't know who the new Master is.
There's no president like NO president,
<< Chuck0 >>
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This situation could not possibly be improved, only prolonged like an endless cum. I hope that Gore will go down in a kicking and screaming, uncontrollable tantrum of litigation, smear, and shit slinging. I am certain that Bush would, if their respective positions were reversed--which of course could easily happen by next week.
This definitely trumps any issue of Nader's impact on Gore's defeat.
The deeper and more profoundly disturbing this situation gets, the better. Hopefully Bush will crawl bruised and bloodied into office under a deluge of legal battles, a flurry of spin doctors, and outraged news editorials, seething with divisive rhetoric---may he face a completely divided and unconsolable Congress that stalls and burns on each and every appointment and bill.
While there is not much difference between the positions of either candidate if that difference is measured in policy, there is a profound difference between the popular cultural, social or ideological forces that they collectively represent. Whatever the result by January 2001, whoever takes office will not be a legitimate representative of the people and that is precisely as it should be.
In terms of a marxist agenda, say a critique of capital, this election stalemate is meaningless. But within the context of political and social history peculiar to the US, this is something like the preamble to a civil war: an election stalemate, turned into protracted litigation as retribution for an impeachment. This has the signature of an ever downward spiral of retribution and recrimination. For some inexplicable reason the news reads, history on hold; au contraire, ce l'histoire en delire.
But perhaps I am just imagining my desires reflected as events. The longer the plateau lasts, as dueling law suits escalate into faux orgastic spasms of ecstasy, one wonders can this be real, and dreads that cold moment when, it will be finally and irrevocably over.
Chuck Grimes