[lbo-talk] please, ralph, NOOO!!!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Dec 8 17:00:27 PST 2003


Lance Murdoch wrote:


>It's quite amusing to see Mr. DeLong, Mr. Henwood and so forth ignoring
>this entire half of the electorate who are mostly working class (if they
>can manage to find work), and who are left-leaning, but toinstead over the
>fact that there are some people out there advocating the repeal of
>Taft-Hartley, single payer health care and so forth, in a grassroots
>organization, and that 1-2% of the eligible population might vote for them
>instead of the Democrats for A Leisure Class's chosen candidate, who will
>be the recipient of Bob Rubin's Wall Street friends largesse - they can
>run the economy the same, except for less priority for middle class
>Chamber of Commerce types and more for Wall Street, and focus on the
>"important" issue like gay marriage.

I don't know how many times I have to say this, but I don't think that any Dem candidate represents the working class. I'm not even sure if Nader does, given his petit bourgeois consumerist roots. Nader has done nothing to build a working class movement or even one remotely friendly to the w.c., despite hopes of that in 2000. I have no illusions about what a Dem presidency would do. It would probably offer less punitive approches to social spending, somewhat greater respect for civil liberties, and an undefined degree less obnoxious foreign policy. But I think the Bush admin - as Bob Brenner agreed in LA the other week (sorry to out you Bob but I need allies on this) - the Bush admin is a danger to civilization, as is the American right, and it I want to see it suffer a big defeat. Bush & the right represent the most noxious aspects of life in this country - extractive industrialists and repressive religions fanatics to name two - and I'd like to see them hanging their heads low. I loved it when Weyrich moaned about how the majority wasn't moral after Clinton's acquittal. I'd like to see that again, on a bigger scale. Then the task would be to hammer the Dems.

Doug



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