[lbo-talk] the antiwar student vote

[Shane Taylor]

Chuck0 wrote:
> The vast majority of anarchists do not vote or
> participate in elections. There may be a few younger
> anarchists who vote next year, but they do so out of
> fear and failure to totally reject their American social
> conditioning. When you are young enough to have
> only known Clinton and Bush as presidents and you
> hear and see how bad Bush is, it's pretty easy for all
> the Civics 101 social conditioning to come back and
> nag you about voting.
>
> Some of us remember Reagan/Bush and how the
> progressive left was saying how we had to vote for
> Clinton in 1992, because we needed anybody but
> more Bush. Well, Clinton certainly disproved that
> nonsense.
>
> It will really suck big time if American activists get
> suckered into wasting their time over the next year
> on pointless electoralism. This will set back our work
> and destroy momentum much more thoroughly than
> any amount of government repression could hope to
> achieve.

On this, you're in agreement with Yoshie and Carrol!

Yet more evidence that the political spectrum is neither a straight line
nor a pendulum, but a gangly hairball.  :-D

-- Shane

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