[WS:} Just support for wind energy, immigrant rights, public transit, and not totally caving in to pressure to cut public sector pensions in MD - which is not much I suppose.
But the question that I face is this: what am I supposed to do? I see four possible courses of action:: 1) Vote for someone else i.e. a Republican, for there is no other alternative; 2.) Get out of this mess altogether and go back to Europe or else drink to oblivion; 3) Engage in self-delusional grandstanding by embracing a "critical theory" of one sort or another or some other self-styled zealotry; 4) Cut the losses and try to salvage whatever possible by holding my nose and support those who seem to offer that opportunity i.e. the DP.
Re1. I will vote for a dog before I vote for a Repug, so that option is DOA Re2. This is an option that I take seriously (going back to EU that is), but I am not yet ready, so I need to find a different option for now Re3. This stuff at best bores me to tears or makes me laugh - I could not do it with a straight face, sorry. Re4. Since other courses of action are not viable for me - this is a default one.
I hope this helps you understand the reasons behind my position on the issue.
Wojtek
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>>
>> > Have you been paying attention to what DP is
>> > doing at the state level?
>>
>> In New York, capping property taxes. refusing to extend a tax on
>> millionaires, forcing teacher layoffs and other service cuts, and giving the
>> green light to fracking. Did you have something else in mind?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
> In MIchigan, never once calling the Republican Senate on its obstruction of
> even neoliberal Democratic proposals, much less their scorched earth
> proposals. Hell, it was the Democratic Governor who proposed eliminating
> the Library of MIchigan, closing the State Museum, and accelerating giving
> away the tax store to any and all "employers" who might come here, even when
> not doing so would have generated positive multiplier effects by comparison
> to the negative ones that followed. Furthermore, since Granholm and the
> Dems refused to raise any issues about the structural character of the
> deficit, their self-destruction (and utter incapacity to run a viable
> candidate) immediately handed the House, the Senate and the Governorship -
> in a redistricting election - to savage the budget-happy Republicans,
> including a Governor who's pushed through a proposal to chop per pupil
> primary and secondary school funding by $370.
> I here equally damning things from NJ, CA, NY, MA, VA, IL, OR, MN and WA...
> whatYOUgot Woj?
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