--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net> wrote:
> From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] race costing Obama about 6 points
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 10:16 AM
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:13:49 -0700 (PDT), andie
> nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I really do not want to hear from the "it makes
> no difference, no lesser
> > of two evils crowd."
>
> That's just asking for it.
>
> Neither McCain nor Obama nor Palin nor Bidden will have any
> more control of
> America Inc than the Revlon Spokesmodel has over Revlon
> Inc, or the
> Playmate of the Month(tm) has over Playboy inc. And
> neither, despite the
> popular allusion, have a button to put a finger on, in fact
> there is no
> button, but rather a very tightly controlled process in
> which the President
> is told what to do.
>
> If the rich and powerful in America want the
> "button" pushed it will be
> pushed, if they don't, it wont.
>
> The candidates are competing for the job of representing
> government policy
> to the public, not the job of deciding it, the job of
> deciding it is not an
> elected position, but rather is a ruthless, cut-throat,
> back alley,
> no-holds-barred cage match of raw power. Any candidate who
> is not already
> vetted as being willing and able, nay, eager, to serve the
> powerful never
> raises above school trustee, if they make it that far.
>
> The candidates are selling themselves to the power elite,
> what they are
> selling is an ability to gain compliance from the American
> people. What
> they will gain compliance for, exactly, is not up to them,
> but rather
> decided by full-contact conflicts among the rivalrous, and
> internationaly
> involved, power elite. And whatever campaign platforms they
> take or
> promises they make in selling themselves, including policy
> promises, are
> not binding, but rather a screen-test of their ability to
> represent a
> certain policy, and a market research project to help the
> elite understand
> exactly what sort of masses they need compliance from.
>
> The individual candidates and their parties fight just as
> bitterly for the
> job as the mothers of juvenile beauty queens fight for
> their daughter's
> crown, but that the job is quite important to those that
> seek it should not
> lead you to conclude that it makes a difference to anybody
> not involved in
> the contest.
>
> "I do not rule Russia," the czar said. 'Ten
> thousand clerks do.' Personal
> rule died when Charles I laughed his head off.
>
> Democracy is like going to a restaurant with only one thing
> on the menu and
> being given the choice of which waiter serves it to you.
>
> Whether you are willing to know it or not, it makes no
> difference. It's
> spectacularly naive to believe it does.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Dmytri Kleiner
> editing text files since 1981
>
> http://www.telekommunisten.net
>
>
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