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[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  It is worth noting that this Newsmax campaign is symptomatic of the
nature of the US democracy (i.e. voting).  Democracy may be a good idea on
paper, but in the US reality it is the tool of the reaction used mainly for
two purposes: (i) deny services to, abridge civil rightsof, or imprison
unpopular minorities; or (ii) prenet government from providing services to
or enforcing rights of unpopular minorities.

The recent spate of ballot initiatives denying rights to samer sex couples
granted tothem by more progressive judiciary is the case in point.

Furthermore, "voting" in America is used almost exclusively to mobilize the
right wing reaction, and almost never to pass a progressive change.  Almost
all that is progressive in this country, from the New Deal, to Civil Rights,
to access to reproductive services and to rights to same sex couples
resulted either from the progressive judiciary or progressive administration
curbing democratically enacted Jim Crow laws / restrictions and opposed by
democratic congress.

Leve it to democracy and soon we will have Jim Crow laws for gays,
immigrants and minorities, buregeoning prison population (prison initiatives
do rather well on popular ballots) and casinos and brothels instead of
schools and social services.

Wojtek

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Left-Wing Wacko <leftwingwacko at gmail.com>wrote:


> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:10 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://news1.newsmax.com/obama_socialist2/?PROMO_CODE=8234-1&gclid=CJmH39Ot7J0CFQEhDQodtHBkQA
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