Shane Mage wrote: > This is 100% wrong. It is by not coming out and > confronting the Obama/ Clinton health scam even > more vocally than the stupid right that the > "left" are "shooting themselves in the foot."
This is >50% wrong. The main source of opposition to a pro-working people health care reform is the big-money interests that benefit from the status quo: big insurers and drug companies. The loud protests of nutty right wingers against "socialized" health care, etc. are an instrument of those interests. Yes, there are other sources of opposition to health care reform, but secondary. (To preempt misunderstanding, not far behind is the interest of big military contractors and other beneficiaries of imperialist foreign policies and even Wall Street, as in bed with Obama as it is for the time being, because they cannot help but fear the effect that mass outrage *could* have on Obama's economic policies, when/if the tolerance of people towards the economic situation and Obama's policies sours. There's some coherence in what all those forces are doing. But what political analysis is supposed to do here is help us break down the complex whole into its pieces, locate weakest links, apply force at the enemy's seams, and split them apart, because that's how we can advance and defeat them.) Sane (not shane, but sane) political sense dictates that the left concentrates its fire on that point. That's the lowest hanging political fruit. In other words, the left should expose the fact that, below the hysteria and fear-mongering of the right wingers, there are cold hard interests bent in derailing any attempt of reform to health care that may minimally redistribute security and wealth in favor of working people. The left should confront those manifestations and expose them for what they are: an instrument of big money interests. Because there's method to this nuttiness. (The left can and should do many other things at once, but that should be its main line of attack.) On the other hand, in-sane political sense dictates that we disperse the little ammo we have among the widest possible range of targets, that we foster more disunity in the ranks of working people, etc. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
