On 3/10/16 4:37 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Louis, in the name of Debs, would say your Sanders supporter would be > wasting her vote. She should instead be throwing her support to Green > candidate Jill Stein. I'd put greater odds of your friend engaging > with your question than wanting to pursue his tortured rationale for > the Green Party. Louis puts great store on the Democratic label and > history (as though the Greens would somehow behave differently than > other left-centre parties if they came close to vying for government) > while disdaining the unfolding political differentiation within and > around the party and the opportunities it presents to consistently > provide the kind of opening you describe.
Yeah, well, I can change my mind on a political party. I was for the FSLN and then I was not. I was for the FMLN and then I was not. I was for the Vietnamese CP and then I was not. I was for the ANC and then I was not. I was even for the Democratic Party until the summer of 1965 when I realized I had been suckered into voting for a "peace candidate". Right now I am for the GPUS because they have given me no reason not to back them. In fact, I identify strongly with what Jill Stein says. You back the DP because you have been corrupted by too many years in the trade union bureaucracy, just like Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky were. The weird thing about you is that your sinecure was modest compared to theirs. Despite that, you have a ferocity in making the case for the oldest bourgeois party that is something to behold. It doesn't seem to matter to you that it has used nuclear weapons twice, upheld slavery, destroyed Reconstruction and that had the blood of millions of Koreans and Vietnamese on its hands. And your defense for such casuistry is that Jill Stein might do the same thing if she got elected? Pretzel logic... _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
