[Marxism] GOP campaign theme: "No-Bama, No pasaran!"
Aaron Aarons
aaron at mylists.fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 7 16:16:28 MDT 2008
At 23:38 -0400 2008/10/06, Walter Lippmann wrote:
<< If he hopes to assemble an numerical majority, and also to prevent the whole thing from being stolen right out from under him as we saw happened to Gore in 2000, Obama needs to win over a substantial number of actual voters. And most voters in the United States today are still white. I'm not saying he has to cater to them and their fears and uncertainties, but he has to be conscious of those fears and uncertainties. He has to craft his appeals in ways to prevent the largest number of them from going to the Republicans because of this fear factor. >>
This sounds like apologetics for a politician doing what it takes to get elected as chief executive of an imperialist country. Even if Obama were white, he would still "have to" advocate policies that are consistent with the needs and desires of the bulk of the ruling class, and with the nationalist, patriotic sentiments of the bulk of the population.
In other words, any politician who has any chance of becoming the POTUS must be an imperialist POS whom no decent human being, not to speak of anti-imperialist, should support in any way.
- Aaron
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