[lbo-talk] electability (was elite-bashing)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 23 15:55:58 PDT 2007


On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> As far as Americans are concerned, most of them don't really believe
> in being the same in god's sight or equal opportunity or level playing
> fields, despite what religion or the constitution says. Why do I
> know that? Because they believe in "electability." What is
> electability but the fact of having enough support of the ruling class
> and therefore having a shot at high office? The dominant ideology is
> deference to the Master Class.

You're taking American exceptionalism too far. People everywhere practice strategic voting. The problem isn't really in the electoral realm - it's that our level of extra-electoral organization and consciousness is fairly primitive.

Doug



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