If individuals and communities don't even register and vote, how do you expect them to have the revolutionary consciousness of those that followed Zapata or the EZLN?
If the mantra is mass social movments, like the huge pro-immigrant rallies of May drive and portend a shift leftwards why was the organizer for the Southwest Voter Education Project only able to gather a few signatures?
^^^^ CB: Those who don't vote in the U.S. and Mexico may be merely being painfully honest about the fact that very few revolutionaries run for office or win offices in these countries. Revolutionaries have been rooted out of the political system by McCarthyism and delegitimizing the civil lives of revolutionaries such that they would not be able to exist at a minimal standard of living so as to function as political individuals or leaders in the U.S. So, there are very few electable or elected in these countries. So,those registering and voting would find no Zapatas on the ballot to vote for.