[lbo-talk] planning to "delay" the election

[Shane Mage]

Mr. Joel Wendland, of the supposedly post-Stalinist CPUSA, cites
as an example of Republican perfidy:
>"...make sure Nader is the ballot in every state..."
And we see the Dumbocrats making every effort to deny
the voters in every state, including of course all the "safe" ones,
the democratic right to vote for any candidate opposed to the
imperialist agenda they share with their Republicon playmates.
Why, one might ask, are they doing this?  Not merely, I think,
to reassure the national-security-state apparatus that their
support for the "USAPATRIOT" act and the Iraq aggression is
really sincere.  More important, now that Ubu and his Bushits
have been well and truly dumped by the decisive sections of the
ruling class, it is crucial that Kerry by plebiscited overwhelmingly
without significant opposition from the left.  The obstacle to that
is Nader, far more than any or all of the left parties.  In this
conjuncture a left protest vote--for whatever alternative might
sneak onto the ballot in any particular state--is the only option open
to any self-respecting leftist (except, of course, anarchists who
on principle always abstain from voting).

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64