I don't understand why any leftist wants to pay any attention to the two major parties. But if one must pay attention to as trivial a matter as presidential elections, then I think one should heed the point made by Black Agenda: Vote against The More Effective Evil - that is, vote against Obama regardless of who is running against him. Check the Black Agenda web site for the argument on this.
The last election I paid any attention to was 1964. Then came the destruction of democracy in the Dominican Republic and I said enough of this shit. That was my first step in radicalization. It took about 18 months more before I began to consider a Marxist position. And about another 40 years before I came to a simple anti-capitalist position, not confined to Marxism or any other particular theory. But in any case, through all changes I never gave one minute's consideration to actually voting for a DP candidate. If I were to vote this fall, which I won't, I would vote for Romney. Carrol ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lakshmi Rhone Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Pen-l] election To be heretical on this list: if the election is shaping up as a contest between Obama/Acemoglu &Robinson versus Romney/Landes, I am voting for the former. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
