[lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for the Battleground States

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Sun Oct 31 21:34:58 PST 2004


At 12:04 AM 11/1/2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Changing only the occupants of the White House without changing the most
>>egregious policies of the present occupant -- the root cause of much of
>>anti-incumbent (aka ABB) sentiments -- is largely symbolic. What's purely
>>symbolic is leftists such as yourself and Thomas voting for John Kerry in
>>such one-party states as New York and California, when your votes do NOT
>>even contribute to "evicting the present occupant of the White House" AT
>>ALL. Thomas says that "if Bush wins, in the same manner as 2004, [he]
>>want[s] to be able to point out that he lost the popular vote" --
>>"winning" the popular vote while losing the electoral college is also
>>nothing but symbolic.
>
>Getting more votes than the other guy is purely symbolic? That's
>ludicrous, unless you consider popular consent and legitimacy purely symbolic.
>
>The subject heading is really misleading. Tariq thinks it's very important
>for Kerry to win the election, and he thinks Nader is a "joke" afflicted
>by "narcissism" with no sense of a national politcal strategy. Did you
>forget that part?
>

The guy needs to be defeated--soundly. I know it's not possible, but if it could happen, I'd like to sit there Tuesday night and into Wednesday watching the vote tickers notch upward, higher and higher for kerry. Every last lovin' vote that's available, from Greenwich Village to San Francisco to Austin.

Defeating Shrub's ass would give people in places like Limpdick and Texas about a half hour to exhale, breath deeply, and gloat -- since the troglodytes aren't going to slink back to their cave. But, I'll take it.

And if it turns out that, once again, the Democrat is the popular winner but Shrubya takes the electoral collage, maybe a royal screw up (yet again) will lead people to take to the streets over it (in my dreams) or at least get a lot of people on board for changing the system -- especially if the rest of the world puts the heat on re our banana republic voting system.

Now _that_ would be the beginning of a _real_ legitimation crisis.

Shrubya needs to lose and lose big--he and the neocon troglodytes--and that means every last vote on Kerry's side counts.

And, if Shrubya's going to be prez for four more years, then every lovin' vote against him counts as well. His administration didn't initially fare well, having lost the popular vote. It ain't gonna fare well a second time and under the same conditions.

k

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