I find this whole conversation cliché and boring. The two party system is inherently undemocratic. We live under a higgly undemocratic system. We elect a president who is a temporary monarch, with massive powers. This has been the case for a very long time. The power of our temporary monarch has increased geometrically since 1941. The vote for this temporary monarch comes down to 6 or 7 of the smaller states. Living in New York my vote for the temporary monarch of the U.S. is practically useless.
But the fact that we elect a temporary monarch means that we are electing the terrorist-and-chief of the planet, a person who is able to wage what should be called "war," without very many checks except for the military itself. This temporary monarch is always a potential threat to the people of the world and to those who are marginalized among the domestic population. What this means is that our very undemocratic votes are just a guess. But they also mean a lot to the rest of the world. Our system is guided by the personality of the elected monarch, not by the monarch's program or stated beliefs. Both Nixon and Reagan brought us very close to nuclear holocaust several times because they were irresponsible imperial presidents. They both, with the advice of their wise men, committed genocide in small countries. Nixon was unstable and Reagan was vacuous and surrounded by desk-murderers. It matters to the world whether an unstable psychopath with extreme racist views and fascist tendencies is elected president or a relatively stable prosecutorial oppressor is elected. One has a 65 percent of destroying the world and the other has a 20 percent chance of destroying the world. (This is my guess.) This kind of expected value evaluation is evil in-itself. But we live in an evil system going through a "crisis-without-alternative." No matter who is elected they will still be terrorist-and-chief. Jerry On Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 11:26 AM Avram Rips via groups.io <mltbarips= [email protected]> wrote: > Maybe in your mind “socialism.” > > On Saturday, September 14, 2024, sartesian via groups.io <sartesian= > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Marv-- >> >> I refuse to waste time responding to a person who has stated that >> socialism is dead and then spends hours on a list-serv in order to kill it >> all over again. >> >> >> >> >> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32320): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32320 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108411255/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
