Re: [Fwd: Swans' Release: July 19, 2004]

[sartesian <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've stay out of this discussion, to everybody's relief (and my own), but is
it possible that anyone can really endorse voting for a national Democratic
candidate as progressive, or even the lesser evil?

I guess so, but it takes a complete disavowal of history to do so.  It takes
a deliberate denial of reality.

Ask a simple question:  Are  the Democratic Party and its national
candidates calling for immediate, unconditional withdrawal from Iraq?

No.

I'm sure Kerry has a plan for "disengagement."  So did Nixon, and that plan
precipitated more deaths.  Because it isn't this or that candidate of the
bourgeois order that matters.  It is the need of the order itself that
dictates war and the continuation of war.

The first requirement for any step forward is  rupturing the two party
continuum-- preferably on a directly labor/class basis, but in the absence
of that-- the next best thing-- the "lesser good."  Why not give the lesser
good the same chance as the lesser evil?