[Marxism] Are Obama voters "Kool-Aid Drinkers"?

[J Rothermel <jayroth6@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Revolution Newspaper Editor:

Re: your story "A Question for Kool-Aid Drinkers" in Revolution 151 
(http://revcom.us/a/151/question-en.html):

While I didn't vote for him or any other capitalist, I find it hard to 
accept your characterization of people who voted for Obama (for whatever 
of a host of reasons) as "Kool-Aid Drinkers."

"Kool Aid Drinkers" are the brainwashed acolytes of a religious cult of 
personality.  When you call Obama voters Kool-Aid Drinkers you are not 
agitating in a friendly and comradely manner in order to use the 
bourgeois rule of Obama to recruit to communism.  You are being 
condescending and dismissive, like liberals are about the working class 
being a bunch of stupid Joe-the-plumbers clinging to God and Guns.  At 
long last, have we not had enough of dismissing those we need to 
seriously ENGAGE with by referring to them as "Kool-Aid drinkers"?  It 
reduces political discussions to worse than a Fox-News level, doesn't 
it?  How are supporters of /Revolution/ supposed to sell a newspaper to 
Obama supporters when it contains articles ridiculing them?

Recruiting Obama voters to communism will be a long process of 
reaching-out and engaging open-minded people in a respectful, 
politically correct and CIVIL manner over the next /years/.  Recruitment 
won't develop by insulting people.

Retraction, please.

Jay Rothermel


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