Fighting_Words
05-20-2004, 02:24 PM
Trying to link John Kerry with the Kennedys, on the strength of the Vietnam/Iraq identity, doesn't work.
What's changed since 1968 -- aside from Kerry's politics! -- is that the so-called Democrats have abandoned the unrich, become timid as a way of avoiding Wellstoning, and have sold out again and again.
In catering to the soldier cult which enforces white supremacy and patriarchy at home and otherwhere, the Democrats -- unless they run Dr. Dean, or maybe Ralph Nader -- are bound to "lose". As they lost last time: claiming that because the sky is falling (Gore, who sold out on "welfare reform", had the snotty-WASP gall to claim his election was necessary for the freedom of women re Roe v. Wade), all the LeftOvers (people outside the White Right, who still vote) must vote for the Democratic Party.
What we need in this country is a good civil war, if the Congress can't stop minding its manners and impeach these guys. If the Congress can't get a straight answer from the military about ANYthing -- which it can't -- what the Hell's the point of all the window-dressing of "democracy"?
More unmentionably: is the U.S. a slave-state of Israel? How'd THAT happen?? This is the real reason the Democrats aren't worth shooting. (And one feels obliged to affirm, even mentioning the elephant in the foreign policy livingroom, that this is NOT an "antisemitic" area, sigh, of discussion . . . )
Besides, absent a mass movement, it doesn't MATTER whether the Dems "win" -- the right won't let em govern: Carter, Clinton are obvious examples. Casting a vote between slightly-competing teams of overdressed billionaires if the Dems would BE the Dems, and if the non-Right, regardless of party and corporate $, would do the right and necessary thing and IMPEACH the war-criminal administration, which wasn't elected and won't be put DOWN by election.
As to Kerry, he oozes self-righteousness and insincerity. It shows on teevee.
What's changed since 1968 -- aside from Kerry's politics! -- is that the so-called Democrats have abandoned the unrich, become timid as a way of avoiding Wellstoning, and have sold out again and again.
In catering to the soldier cult which enforces white supremacy and patriarchy at home and otherwhere, the Democrats -- unless they run Dr. Dean, or maybe Ralph Nader -- are bound to "lose". As they lost last time: claiming that because the sky is falling (Gore, who sold out on "welfare reform", had the snotty-WASP gall to claim his election was necessary for the freedom of women re Roe v. Wade), all the LeftOvers (people outside the White Right, who still vote) must vote for the Democratic Party.
What we need in this country is a good civil war, if the Congress can't stop minding its manners and impeach these guys. If the Congress can't get a straight answer from the military about ANYthing -- which it can't -- what the Hell's the point of all the window-dressing of "democracy"?
More unmentionably: is the U.S. a slave-state of Israel? How'd THAT happen?? This is the real reason the Democrats aren't worth shooting. (And one feels obliged to affirm, even mentioning the elephant in the foreign policy livingroom, that this is NOT an "antisemitic" area, sigh, of discussion . . . )
Besides, absent a mass movement, it doesn't MATTER whether the Dems "win" -- the right won't let em govern: Carter, Clinton are obvious examples. Casting a vote between slightly-competing teams of overdressed billionaires if the Dems would BE the Dems, and if the non-Right, regardless of party and corporate $, would do the right and necessary thing and IMPEACH the war-criminal administration, which wasn't elected and won't be put DOWN by election.
As to Kerry, he oozes self-righteousness and insincerity. It shows on teevee.