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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Wojtek Sokolowski
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:35 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> system. That core assumption threatened by empirical refutation is
> populism
> or a belief that "the people" are essentially progressive, but they are
> jkept form expressing their progressive will by force and institutional
> manipulation.
>
> Alleging electoral fraud and calling for further inquiry into this fraud
> is
> a diversion designed to steer the attention away from the troubling fact
> that "the people" actually have spoken their will and it sounds like a big
> reactionary fart. That is to say, "the people" elected Bush because they
> like strong authoritarian leaders who panders to their prejudices and
> kicks
> ass of their despised scapegoats and enemies.
I'll take populism and its companion (democracy) over misanthropy every time. "The people" you're so dismissing as having elected Bush excludes the half of the population who don't vote. As you know or should know, many of these people don't vote because there's hardly a reason to vote. Many more are just too traumatized by their own lives to participate in the higher realms of the society.
Your irrational human-hate also dismisses "institutional manipulation," in this, the most heavily and successfully propagandized society in human history.
Do you notice these things, or are you just stuck in a crazy rant you can't escape?