Doug Henwood wrote:
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> True enough, but again, what's your point? Should we fight for a
> different FDA, or just give up on everything?
Your alternatives are identical, and hence not alternatives. We, whoever you mean by we, are not going to get a different FDA under either the RP or the DP. Hence arguing for that is the same as just giving up.
The trouble with posing pseudo-alterntives is that they then usurp the intellectual and political space which could otherwise be devoted to discovering _actual_ alternatives.
You make the same error over and over again. You balance alternatives which exist and can exist only in purely mental space, and then judiciously propound that Alternative A is certainly better than Alternative A.
Carrol