"Sinecure"? Which coal mine are you working in, Louis? Whose toilets are you scrubbing?
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org nai...@justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > 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 > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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