markwayne (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} markwayne) wrote,@ 2007-02-28 13:16:00 |
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Where is the loyal opposition?!
In response to this at the indispensable Common Dreams. Toss them a few dollars.
My comment:
Well, YES! In fact, HELL YES! Where indeed are the voices in Congress which represent the majority of the public’s antiwar position? Where has it *ever* been in this failing democratic experiment? (See Chalmers Johnson on Democracy Now yesterday Feb.27 for some comment on this in his book “Nemesis” and the future of American imperialism vs. American democracy.)
I argue (along with Chomsky and others) that this *is* a divided country — but not along a Democrat/Republican line. Along the line dividing public policy from public opinion. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to argue (as Nader does) that both “wings of the Corporate Party” have made the cynical (and correct, given the terrain of the current system of “elections”) calculation that normal folks’ opinions couldn’t mean less. They correctly realize that a system of legalized bribery must be adhered to with a most strict discpline. We don’t need to look far down the memory hole to see a good example of this — Pelosi and her band of merry pranksters, as their very first public act, took appropriations control “off the table.” Of course, no surprise there. It was decided long before hand that there was just too much profit going to the ‘right’ members of the ‘Ultra-wealthy’ class through the domestic and international crime wave that is the military occupation of Iraq.
We need a viable third party.
It is that simple.
Mark W.
Norfolk, VA
In response to this at the indispensable Common Dreams. Toss them a few dollars.
My comment:
Well, YES! In fact, HELL YES! Where indeed are the voices in Congress which represent the majority of the public’s antiwar position? Where has it *ever* been in this failing democratic experiment? (See Chalmers Johnson on Democracy Now yesterday Feb.27 for some comment on this in his book “Nemesis” and the future of American imperialism vs. American democracy.)
I argue (along with Chomsky and others) that this *is* a divided country — but not along a Democrat/Republican line. Along the line dividing public policy from public opinion. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to argue (as Nader does) that both “wings of the Corporate Party” have made the cynical (and correct, given the terrain of the current system of “elections”) calculation that normal folks’ opinions couldn’t mean less. They correctly realize that a system of legalized bribery must be adhered to with a most strict discpline. We don’t need to look far down the memory hole to see a good example of this — Pelosi and her band of merry pranksters, as their very first public act, took appropriations control “off the table.” Of course, no surprise there. It was decided long before hand that there was just too much profit going to the ‘right’ members of the ‘Ultra-wealthy’ class through the domestic and international crime wave that is the military occupation of Iraq.
We need a viable third party.
It is that simple.
Mark W.
Norfolk, VA
