[lbo-talk] Re: Campaigning vs. Voting

R rhisiart at charter.net
Tue Nov 18 15:54:48 PST 2003


you couldn't be more right, nathan. the only wasted vote is a vote uncast.

now if only the so-called two party system would take your message seriously and provide voters with candidates worth voting for. it's a tragedy to see the garbage the parties consistently produce after decades of the people's struggle.

R

----- Original Message -----

From: nathanne at nathannewman.org

To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org

Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:34 AM

Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Campaigning vs. Voting

Tahir Wood said:

> My own view is that one needs to discredit the electoral process by

>rather spreading ideas on how to create a system of dual power, so that

>eventually very few people go to the polls but many participate in

other >forms of political organisation.

That are what? Dominated by elite intellectuals, without all the

grubiness of one person, one vote?

What do you have against voting?

Sure, in practice it's perverted in a lot of ways, but that's an argument

for improving the process.

I hear this anti-voting rhetoric and I have an instinctive historical

"f--- you" feeling, given that people have died to gain that right to

vote.

-- Nathan Newman

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