> Chuck0 wrote:
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>> Looking forward to November when we can get past this election
>> nonsense and focus on real social change.
> If Bush is re-elected, don't you think a lot of people will focus on
> hating him rather than "real social change"?
No. I can't see how more people could spend more time hating Bush than they are now. I'm sure that Bush will leave office at some point with the lowest ratings of any U.S. president. But I think that more people will wake up to the fact that the problem isn't just one person, rather the entire system.
In many ways, all of the hate that goes into shallow Anybody But Bush politics reflects the infatuation that anarchists had with propaganda by the deed more than a century ago. Killing leaders might eliminate a few bad apples from high office, but anarchists eventually figured out that you can't shake up the system by removing this leader or that leader. The whole system has to be destroyed and replaced with something better. People also need to kill the leaders in their heads.
In the lives of billions around the world, it doesn't matter if Bush or Kerry is President. If we are serious about ending capitalism and imperialism, our primary goal should be to eliminate the United States from the world. Billions of people around the world can't wait until the DLC gets around to electing an anti-war, anti-imperialist president to office.
Chuck0