Re: [Marxism] Two gains US scored recently in Iraq wat

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Runs the elections in their interests": that's a general truth. But, you
make this tantamount to hand-picking a candidate. That's bullshit. This is
not how the ruling class "rules." Can you produce a shred of evidence that
the ruling class "tilted toward Bush," other than the tautalogical,
"because he won the election"? Bush received greater corporate funding? The
Republicans have been doing so for many years. Nor does the ruling class
choose by "puppetteering" the public. No, the voting population chose Bush,
and did so because, as others have said, Kerry offered no alternative, and
Bush's ideological appeal triumphed in that vacuum. THAT is how the ruling
class rules. By the way, you should proofread your writings before posting.
The beginning of this one was rather confused.

Mike

At 11:35 AM 11/28/2004, you wrote:
> the small billionaire ruling class. The tiny rich class that
> politically and economically leads the nation also runs the elections in
> their interests.. They ended up tilting toward Bush partly because Kerry
> had the burden of OUR SUPPORT AND WE WERE STILL ACTIVELY AGAINST THE WAR
> -- as was shown clearly in the march of 500,000 in August! Perhaps Kerry
> would have won if we had SUPPORTED his position on the war.  But we
> couldn't bring ourselves to triangulate quite that much. (Thank God,
> Allah, or whatever).


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