> When Yoshie and others
> to the left of the party complain about the "ABB crowd", they do not seem to
> appreciate that they are referrring to half of the US electorate, for which
> "ABB" translates as a No vote to the question: "Do you approve of the Bush
> administration's decision to unilaterally invade Iraq after having misled
> the American people?" The intensity of the ABB mood within all strata of the
> population is such that those who try to draw attention to the shortcomings
> of Kerry (or F911) are seen as irrelevant and risk getting trampled in the
> process.
Those of us who complain about the ABB Bandwagon(tm) are not unaware that most of the population is ready to vote the Bush goons out of office. This will happen in November and there isn't anything that will change this outcome. What Yoshie and the rest of us are concerned about are our "fellow travellers" who make the ABB phenomenon an attention-hogging subject in our everyday movement discourse. Instead of talking about more important issues (or organizing around our politics and issues), we are subjected to a continuous cavalcade of leftist insecurity in the form of ABB politics.
Come on folks. The Democrats don't care what you think. Most of the population hates Bush and they will vote him out in November. Can we please talk about something else now? Like how we are going to end capitalism or stop the next American imperial war?
Chuck0