[Marxism] Last minute stab by rightist Dobson against Obama

[Craig Brozefsky]

Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> "So think about this," she said. "This year is the year of the ballot. Next
> year, if we WIN the ballot, will be the year for something more, but if we
> lose, we'll be stuck fighting to keep what we have."

We will be stuck fighting next year to keep what we have, regardless.

Only we'll have spent the last two years building a flimsy coalition 
around collective denial and "hope" and will get a moment to 
congratulate ourselves before it all falls apart.

> What would comrades do next Tuesday in my shoes? And it has to be
> *consistent*: whatever I tell my neighbor or a Latino community meeting or
> Cynthia McKinney if she comes back has to be the truth, what I actually did
> November 4. I really don't know how to function any other way politically.

Then write-in for McKinney, or Nader, or whoever.  Not but someone who 
is going to bomb our brothers and sisters.  The death and destruction 
and harm that will bring is very real, not some abstract foreign policy 
position.  Pissing off some people over a vote that will be forgotten in 
a few years is nothing, particularly when the struggle will quickly wash 
over any kind of "who voted for who" finger-pointing in a 
quasi-democratic farce.