> so, what's at stake if people spend 30 minutes next election
> day voting for almost anyone but shrubya?
>
> is it just that you don't like to see anyone talking at all about
> participating in the electoral process because, in principle,
> it is pointless to think one can vote socialism into being? ok.
> i understand your position, but i think it's kind of like pissing
> at a hurricane. people like to vote and talk about who they'll
> vote for and why, just like they like to talk about and watch
> (and even just follow it in the papers) sports. in this case,
> people just grind their favorite axe(s), using their position
> on a politician (or party, as in the case of Greens or Dems
> like Nathan and Brad) as the tree stump upon which they
> rest their axe. so? they'd do that about anything!
Funny how, if I assume representative democracy is objectively counter-revolutionary, The Revolutionaries' hostility to voting Bush out in '04 makes tremendous sense. To vote is to believe that even minor positive change can occur this side of the Revolution, and by bouji means.
What's at stake is the revolutionary identity.
-- Shane
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