[lbo-talk] Neither Soros's Dems nor Bush's GOP

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 11 19:55:52 PST 2003


Bob Feldman wrote:


>Since the 21st-century anti-war/anti-corporate New Left in the United States
>is a populist left, it's likely that it will continue to oppose transforming
>the United States political system into even more of a Plutocracy.
>
>So if Ralph ends up challenging both Soros's Dems and Bush's GOP on an
>anti-corporate/anti-plutocratic basis then even the Old Left's
>"lesser-evilists" may not be able to prevent Ralph from obtaining over 33%
>of the U.S. popular vote in 2004--especially if Soros's Dems and Bush's GOP
>aren't allowed to exclude independent non-plutocrat-subsidized presidential
>candidates from the televised presidential debates in 2004. Once Ralph is
>in the White House, presumably he would prevent the plutocrats, the
>corporations, and the corporate media from ever again rigging the U.S.
>electoral system; and he would, presumably, move towards quickly
>establishing an electoral system of proportional representation and quickly
>abolishing the U.S. electoral college.
>
>It's interesting that Soros is also apparently working with Real Network
>Inc. CEO Rob Glaser on Soros's effort to take over the Democratic Party
>presidential campaign, since Rob Glaser's foundation has apparently given
>two grants, totalling $100,000, to help subsidize Amy Goodman's Democracy
>Now! show in recent years

You win this week's award for the most ludicrous points packed into a three paragraph post. Nader, 33% of the vote? Amy Goodman, tool of plutocrats? Ralph, as president, could do all these things? Wow.

Doug



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