[lbo-talk] Re: The election falls on...

[jimi ayler]

>And the "safe state strategy," for a party that can
>expect no electoral college votes anywhere, makes
>perfect sense in this election.  The great majority
>of the Left protest vote is to be found in places
>like New York and California, where the case against
>the *competent* Imperial candidate can be made most
>clearly because the fear of throwing the election to
>Ubu and his Bushits is such obviously hysterical
>nonsense in those states. Ultraleftist naderism--the
>ill-concealed desire to inflict another four
>years of Ubu as just punishment on America and the
>world--is just the symmetrical counterpart of the
>Stalino/Socialdemocratico/Liberal Popular Front
>effort to plebiscite Kerry and squash independent
Left
>political action once and for all.

bless your heart, and your elegant political analysis,
shane. although i disagree with your presumption of
evil intent on the naderite/"ultra-leftist" wing --
you know, there IS an election in this nominally
democratic republic in november, and one SHOULD be
able to choose whomever they wish to vote for, however
gobsmackingly ludicrous and ultimately harmful to
those leftists that decision may seem to you and i --
this is essentially the argument i posed to yoshie
last week, to the utter silence of the list (that
happens to me alot on these lists...is it my cologne,
or lack thereof?). yoshie does feel differently, as
his extensive blog excerpts posted here suggest, but
permit me to cast the net wider still -- does anyone
on this list REALLY believe that the greens "safe
states" strategy, part and parcel of their thumbing
their nose at their fair-weather once-candidate ralph,
will doom the green party to any greater political
irrelevancy than they currently enjoy? similarly, is
there any reason for people NOT to vote green locally
and be all prophylactic (i.e., "safe") on the
presidential line if they don't live in ny or cali?
the spectacularlization of a presidential bid in no
way prevents greens from mobilizing on the local level
-- again, and as shane suggests, the ONLY level they
could even remotely hope to have any impact on
whatsoever. im-sorta-ho...

discuss.

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