Dyna, you have gone beyond the purview of the Minneapolis Issues List and I will
have to go beyond the purview too to answer you.
I would have to go back and cite newspaper articles and spend more time than I have
to demonstratively confirm my memory so I will limit myself to saying that I do
remember many people viewing the election as the lesser evil Democrat against the
monstrously evil Republican in the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson contest, the 1976
Carter/Ford race and the 2000 and now, the 2004 election.
I limited myself to the Minneapolis issue of the NRP to keep within the limits of
the list, but since you have brought up national issues, Kerry has said that he would
keep the troop level in Iraq at the current level and increase it if the generals
asked for more troops and that he would have supported invading Iraq EVEN IF he had
known there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. At lest that's what he said
before his flip flop within the last week and his beginning to attack the war in Iraq.
And he does not support single payer health care either, thus continuing the present
out of control inflation in health care costs and the wasting of at least 20% of every
health care dollar in playing postal ping pong by sending bills back and forth between
the plethora of HMO's.
Given the surprisingly libertarian positions on some issues that Goldwater took
towards the end of his political career, the fact that he is Jewish, etc, etc, it is
very unlikely that the ovens would have opened for African Americans if he had been
elected President.
And as for the election in Germany that brought Hitler to power, I have just been
consulting William L. Shirer's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH. An interesting
quote from page 219: "...for President Hindenburg seemed unbeatable (in the 1932
election). The legendary hero would be supported not only by many elements of the
Right but by the democratic parties which had been against him in the election of 1925
but which now saw him as the savior of the Republic." Hindenburg was the leader of
the conservative farmers party but now he was viewed as the lesser evil against
Hitler. He had promised he would not appoint Hitler to be Chancellor in his
government. By 1933, Hindenburg did appoint Hitler Chancellor and the Nazi tyranny
began. In other words, the left supported Hindenburg as the lesser evil to Hitler and
Hindenburg turned around and appointed Hitler. Truly, the example PAR EXCELLANCE of
the wages of lesser evil politics.
Robert Halfhill Loring Park
http://halfhillviews.greatnow.com
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