Electoral Dilemmas Re: Color of Anarchism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 11:10 AM -0500 1/3/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>At 9:03 PM -0500 1/2/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>>The Reps are the party of white pride!
>>
>>That may be in part a function of the first-past-the-post system. 
>>The absence of proportional representation means that the far 
>>right, rather than organizing their own parties a la Jean-Marie Le 
>>Pen's National Front, mainly remain within the Republican Party.
>
>I was a bit surprised to see Justin going on about how races don't 
>really exist. Of course they don't exist in any biological sense, 
>but they are created and sustained politically, and in the U.S., it 
>happens every day, right in front of our eyes. Just ask Trent Lott.

Justin didn't say what you attribute to him, but he answered for himself.


>The Reps racializing Southern Strategy was organized from the 
>highest levels of the party, by Nixon and Kevin Phillips, and 
>they've been running on white anxiety and resentment ever since. 
>It's not just a bunch of semi-marginal Le Pen-style extremeists - 
>it's governors, Senators, and presidential candidates (including W 
>campaigning at Bob Jones U).

Who disagrees?  I'm just saying that, in the two-party duopoly 
system, a large number of the far right (though not all of them) get 
stuck in the Republican Party, whereas, with proportional 
representation, they would build their own party, as in France.
-- 
Yoshie

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