ABB is anybody but bush. peace, b. On Friday, December 31, 2004, at 01:39 PM, Garth Cartledge wrote:
At 07:29 AM 1/01/2005, Carrol Cox wrote:
Debra Walker wrote: > > > During the past few years, dumb aggressive intolerant Americans have been making a lot of noise--and of course, they just love Bush. Americans need to protest the Bush administration's actions a lot more: that would apply to progressive Democrats AND Socialists AND Greens. There is some common ground here; none of us approve of Bush's foreign policy.
Among the americans who support the bush agenda I would list the democrats in the senate, the democrats in the House, the democrats on the Democratic National Committee, and above all a couple of imerialist jerks named Kerry & Edwards.
The aggressive intolerant stance of the u.s. government is not going to be changed as long as the DP maintains its hegemony over the left.
The anti-war movement virtually disappeared in to the the ABB hysteria, and it looks like it is going to be difficult to put it back together again. The DP once again performed gallantly and with tremendous success its historical task of blunting, absorbing, and demoralizing, and dissipating progressive mass movements.
Carrol Cox
Under its present political setup and using the current method of selecting candidates, I do not see how the US can get a President who would not support policies similar to those that Bush has pushed - it is just that no other President has been as blatantly unconcerned with legality and morality as has Bush.
Very simplistically, The financial well being of the US requires that its massive business structure be maintained and all that Bush has been doing is pushing policies that do that - and he and his mates have, of course, personally picked up a dollar or two in the process. To maintain its current lifestyle the US needs to control oil supplies and prevent any other nation from really being any competition in any sphere that matters - and until it became the world's only super power with no competitor it could not be as blatantly and aggressively imperialist as it is now.
And, from my reading, it appears that most Congressmen uncritically support the protection of big business without any regard for the welfare of the actual voters. When the Congress supported Bush's war of aggression into Iraq only one lone Congressman (or maybe Senator) protested (I forget his name) and excoriated the Congress for countenancing such an illegal act of aggression (I do not know how the US Media allowed news of that to come out - perhaps it caught them off guard). No Congressman/woman would support objections to the year 2000 election results and none read the Patriot legislation before blithely passing it.
By the way, please enlighten one me - what is ABB?
Garth Cartledge
" Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of Freedom", From Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans (1853) by Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864
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