Prez Debates - Round 1

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Oct 4 11:17:20 PDT 2000


At 01:41 PM 10/4/00 -0400, Chuck0 wrote:
>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>> Another issue - "third-partyism" annoys me just like third-worldism and
>> third-wayism do. In the ideal world, yes, it would be nice to have
>> something else that two big-business parties, but we do not live in an
>> ideal world and have deal with what we have. Those who pop-up as 'third
>> party' presidential candidates are either pathetically naive or act as the
>> fifth column splitting votes. A genuine effort would be party-building at
>> the grass-roots. For a while I though the Labor Paerty was serious in that
>> - but what happened to them?
>>
>> So in the absence of any real alternative - Gore seems the only choice or
>> rather the "lesser weevil".
>
>Apparently, these guys share your thinking:
>
>http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ajkessel/o3/image42.htm

Well - "big" labor apparently opts for small victory now instead of waiting for the ruling class to bring capitalism to its collapse. I am on the same side, as you correctly pointed out. After all, better one bird in hand than two on a Bush.

wojtek



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