>From Bruce Dixon: > Campaigns that don't ask the questions Repubs and Democrats shy away from > aren't worth mounting and their candidates not worth voting for. [...] But > if you demand five times above and beyond what they're willing to give, > asking the questions they dare not, any victory you win is yours. >
It seems to me that if he is intellectually honest, Dixon should be endorsing someone like Sanders.. -raghu. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Why Elections Still Matter, Except When They Don't > Bruce A. Dixon > > Martin Luther King once talked about how a black person in the south was > unable to vote, while one in the north had nothing to vote for. 50 years > later, the south as become the north too. The two capitalist parties have > gamed and subverted the electoral process to exclude real opposition and to > make it meaningless, except for bestowing legitimacy upon their stooges. > So > why and when to elections still matter for the left, and when not? by BAR > managing editor Bruce A. Dixon > > Two years ago, I wrote a piece called "How to Waste Your Vote in 2012" in > which I said > > Your vote really is your voice, and in the modern era, every government on > earth claims to rule with the consent of the people. This bestows upon the > vote a unique kind of legal and symbolic power. The gap, however, between > this legal, this symbolic power of the vote and any real ability to change > things for the better is a vast one. The authorities rightly fear the > people's voice, and so have contrived law and custom to ensure that we are > seldom heard and almost never heeded. > > Full at > > > http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/why-elections-still-matter-except-w > hen-they-dont > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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