[lbo-talk] Dirty Hands

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Mike:
Wow, can I have some of what you're smoking? This assumes that issues
have much to do with who wins elections. The Dems would have cleaned up
in '02 by this logic. The fear generated by the blowback from hawkish
policies, along with the enabling of the GOP agenda by the media, pretty
much guarantees a Republican victory next year, in my view. (The
Republican dominance in the South, and the virtual lock on the Electoral
College this produces, is another factor.) The economy is irrelevant.
Look at Sharon in Israel. That's the emerging model for the U.S.
Chalmers Johnson is right.  The U.S.'s descent into militarism and
oligarchy will end when the U.S. does.

WS reply:
I pretty much agree with the above.  The only two things that may do
Bush in in 2004 are (i) his dittohead appeal that makes him immensely
popular among suburban and lower middle class white men, but is
irritating to everyone else; and (ii) the capitalist class may want to
have a new, more tolerable to foreign investors face speaking for the
empire.  

However, if the Busheviks decide to remedy the faltering public image of
their Fuhrer, say, by orchestrating another anthrax scare around the
Labor Day - Bush 2004 victory is virtually certain.  

Wojtek