[lbo-talk] Obama's betrayal of hope

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 08:30:48 PST 2009


Carrol: Obama is a DP president.

[WS:] I find your persistent singling out the DP misguided, if not irritating. It is like focusing on the tails of a bad coin while forgetting its heads. The whole damn thing is bad, not just its tails or its heads, and it will not get any better if you change either side of it.

Ditto for the political party system in the US. This whole system of peddling political patronage to those in a position to pay for it is rotten to the bone. The DP is just one side of the system, and changing it (or not changing) does not make much of a difference how this whole political patronage racket works. Singling it out is like complaining only about the good cop in the good cop/bad cop trick.

Such misguided criticism only creates diversion from the rotten nature of the US political system as a whole.

Wojtek

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> It seems to me that there comes a point where it is inmcrrect to think
> out each individual instance of a general phenomenon; that one should
> simply take the general point as establsihed.
>
> Obama is a DP president.
>
> What more do you really need to know about him?
>
> It's like proving for the nth time that cyanide does not make a good
> seasoning for steak.
>
> Carrol
>
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