[lbo-talk] California's Glorious Recall

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 8:25 PM -0400 8/11/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>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?

At 5:38 PM -0700 8/11/03, mike larkin wrote:
>I think he said this about the election of Bush, too; a little 
>"creative destruction" would be good for the political system. Well, 
>I've had about all the creative destroying I can handle, thank you 
>very much.

There's no point in complaining of Alex Cockburn's love of chaos and 
creative destruction -- after all, it's not his preference but 
Darrell Issa's money and real discontent of Californian voters that 
put the recall on the ballot.  And now that it's on the ballot, 
left-wingers need to think about which candidate/party to campaign 
for (not just "vote for") and how.
-- 
Yoshie

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