[lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>>But I am really struggling to understand what that supposed majority on
>>this list actually mean by saying or implying when they position
>>themselves to the left of social democracy or by denouncing the
>>Democratic party as "treacherous" (of whom or what?).  Seriously, folks,
>>what is it exactly that you want?
>
>Worker control of the means of production, of course! But I'm all for 
>social democratic measures in the interim, both because they make people's 
>lives better, and because they can, at least in potential, add to the 
>political strength of the working class. Creeping socialism, they used to 
>call it.

But Americans don't want creeping socialism; they want galloping 
Christianity.  They don't want social benefit programs to guard them against 
the marketplace; they want to entrust their woes to their invisible friend 
God.  E.g., consider this from an article in today's NY Times that focuses 
on "hip new churches" around the nation:

"Many emerging churches ... have revived medieval liturgies or practices, 
including prayer labyrinths and lectio divina, or sacred reading, a process 
of intense meditation and prayer over a short biblical passage. Some borrow 
Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox rituals that pre-date the Enlightenment.

"'The Orthodox practices represent stability,' Mr. Musick [a pastor] said. 
'Marriage you can't rely upon. With the dot-com failures, having mad 
computer skills doesn't guarantee you a good job. That stability isn't 
there.'"

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/national/18WORS.html>

Onward into the brave new Middle Ages!  How pathetic can Americans get?

Carl

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