Nathan:
> I remember back on this list when everyone was confidently
> saying Gore was a shoo-in; now the drumbeat seems to be of
> Bush's inevitability.
-Get the clue, Nathan. The ruling class has decided it is going to be -Bush in 2004, and the media are simply informing the masses about that -decision. Just as they did in 2000 and, for that matter in 1992.
Well, then the masses didn't get the message, since more of them voted for Gore than Bush. Any conspiracy or class theory that sees the 2000 result as some inevitable result has to assume some super-omipotent control by capital to risk a margin that close.
And again I note that people on this list then mostly thought Gore was inevitable, so they obviously didn't get the message from the ruling class then either.
But I am sure that if Bush is defeated, many will then say, but of course, that was what the ruling class wanted all along. Heaven forbid we assume that the working class has any agency or power.
-- Nathan Newman