[lbo-talk] Re: What's at stake?

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Tue Nov 18 20:07:41 PST 2003


On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 05:36 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> See, that's how bad things have gotten - an intelligent,
> sophisticated, and rational person like Jenny can suggest suspension
> of an election and it doesn't sound at all far-fetched. An old friend
> of Liza's, and now of mine, also intelligent, sophisticated, and
> rational, thinks there won't be an election in 2008. Scary, no?

Older list members (or maybe we're all old enough) will remember that a segment of the U.S. Left convinced itself in 1972 that Nixon would cancel the election.

Plus ca change ...

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax



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