[lbo-talk] What the results tell us...

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 7 20:46:54 PST 2006


The GOP won 100% of statewide offices in Texas. Kinky, the living cartoon character, is not governor, thank God. He got less than 10%. Governor Goodhair (i.e. Perry) still reigns in the big red state.

I did my part here in TX by way of some strategic early voting. Some important things like our CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Plan) program for poor kids are on the line.

I have strong anarchist sympathies but I do not believe that you surrender some metaphysical part of your soul to authoritarianism by stepping into a ballot box, or that it's an either/or choice between voting and groundfloor organizational work. But I have little belief our voting system will change anything substantial, even less so now than before. It can affect a few things, but, fuck it -- look how many Dems had to lean way, way rightward to make as little advances as they did nationally. Depressing.

-B.

ravi wrote:
> - Connecticut democrats are a strange bunch
> - country even more polarised than pundits bemoan
> - 1/3rd of evangelicals voted for Democrats
> - the South is gone (forget the 50 state strategy)
> - homophobia lives on
> - Colorado is one mixed-up state
> - Minimum wage doing mostly ok
> - What's up with anti-affirmative action in MI?
> - nobody is as obstinate as New Jerseyans
>
> Where is everybody?
>
> --ravi



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