[lbo-talk] I thought elections weren't supposed to mean anything

[Joel Wendland]

The discussion filling my inbox -- far more annoyingly deep than normal -- 
is very confusing. Before the election we all agreed that the election isn't 
the most improtant thing about US politics, but now we ALL seem obsessed 
with it--even the folks who were shrillest about how unimportant voting is 
and how it is only symbolic. Now, they too are obsessed -- I mean about 
20-or-30-e-mails-in-the-last-12-hours-from-one-person-when-I-thought-there-was-a-limit 
obsessed-- with it.

Further it seems, that the crowd who insisted that elections are of no or 
little importance are now saying it doesn't matter if you struggle over 
certain issues because it will all go bad anyway. I've seen such a post (or 
6) by Yoshie and at least one from Carrol. That's nonsense.

So what's the deal?

If you don't want to fight the Bush agenda just say so. If you are mad that 
a certain someone got only 400,000 votes, you might be happy to know that 
we'd be in exactly the same spot if he had gotten twice that or three times 
that or 20 times that. Move on. I sure want to.

Joel Wendland

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