[lbo-talk] California's Glorious Recall

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 11 17:25:46 PDT 2003


Michael Pugliese wrote:


> Single payer initiatives has gone down twice in the last three
>electoral cycles.
> I'll either vote for Arianna or vote again for Camejo, but, the
>dope I smoke isn't so http://www.hallucinogenic.com/
>as to make me think either will win.
> The first poll to be taken after the deadline will be announced @
>6:30 PST, a NBC sponsored one. I don't expect eith Kucinich or
>Camejo is gonna storm the winter palace anytime soon. Where does
>this ungrounded in any politico-empirical reality wishfullness come
>from?

Cockburn's said many times that he believes in the chaos theory of politics - that anything that increases the level of chaos (and its relative, gridlock) is good, and anything that decreases it is bad. Clearly, the recall greatly increases the level of chaos, so therefore it's good. Budget? Who needs a budget?

Doug



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