[lbo-talk] tomorrow's election analysis tonight

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  I think it is just the political circus as usual.  Most voters are
quite incapable of weighing political ideas and policies - their vote is
based mainly on their emotions, chief of them being fear of bogey men
created by political propaganda.  In that, they are predictable like bowel
movement - no big surprise here.  Elections are hardly anythinhg more than
proxy lynchings of bogey men.  The outcome of the Maine referendum on same
sex marriages is a case in point.

More generally, democracy as it is currently practiced is hardly anything
more than professional wrestling - a show of fake battle between fake titans
created for the entertainment of stupid mobs.  Elections and the so-called
elected "representatives" are fundamnetally incapable of changing th estatus
quo - they only thing they can do is to perpetuate the politics of
patronage.

The change, if it comes at all, will come from above, instituted by powerful
leaders who, instead of playing the stupid popularity game aka elections,
will draw the masses behind them - just as Ralph Nader envisioned it in his
latest book.  Historically, changes have almost always happened that way.

Wojtek

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Tomorrow's election analysis tonight: http://bit.ly/3JDyyI
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