[lbo-talk] Ohio Picks the Next Shogun

[Brad Mayer]

But seriously, how much further to the right can the Dems move?  I mean, 
they've pretty much totally capitulated post 9/11, that on top of the 
Clinton move to the right.  Nevertheless the Dem apparachik ploy to hold on 
to enough of their residual redneck vote to remain nationally competitive 
has come up a cropper.  Though Kerry was hardly designed to appeal to this 
vote (that is why I assumed he was the Designated Loser), and was therefore 
the negative confirmation that if the Dems can't hold a minimal piece of the 
vast provincial ignoramous vote that prefers that their Shoguns resemble 
starry-eyed monkeys, then they are locked out nationally at least, and in 
many places statewide as well.

To whit, they are finished.  Even Clinton had need of Perot - a very rich, 
intelligent state capitalist yahoo - to win in 1992.  Will the American 
bourgeoisie break rank like that under WII?  They are a pretty bankrupt and 
terrorized lot these days, anxious to march in lockstep with whomever.

Somehow I knew the bourgeois side of my generation would f**k it up 
royally - and they are, having had such an easy, pampered existence until 
now.

-Brad Mayer

At 9:20 pm -0800 2/11/04, Brad Mayer wrote:
>And the Dems are finished.

No. The Dems will just move right. Then the meaning of "no
difference" will be spelled out loud and clear, and some people can
then wank off to the fulfilment of their stance.