Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
> Doug (quoting Tariq Aziz):
>
> A defeat for Bush would create a different
atmosphere
> in American political culture, to show it can be
done.
> It will make people much more critical.
I hope (assuming Kerry wins) that Tariq is correct.
I don't think he is. Lincoln's election created a different atmosphere. I don't know of any other presidential election that has.
We shall see.
Carrol
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For instance, I think Reagan's election set a tone which allowed all kinds of wealth to be funneled from the uses and needs of the working class back to the coffers and control of the ruling class.
Bush sets a similar tone. One can argue till the cows come home that Clinton was a bastard and did this and that to screw the working class (and it's true), but the fact is that things like the family leave act would never have been initiated or passed by a Republican President or supported by a majority of his fellow Repug-pollies.
Of course, labor is entitled to all it produces. But to get that, labor would have to organize militantly as a class with that strategic goal in mind. As that is not happening right now, workers like me think that we are entitled to at least as much as we can possibly get of what our class produces and that's why the smarter ones amongst us never vote Republican these days and most times vote Democrat. This election, like most bourgeois selections, is mostly a defensive act.
Best, Mike B)
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