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Thread #53321 Message #819820
Posted By: GUEST
06-Nov-02 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obit: the Democratic Party
Subject: RE: Obit: the Democratic Party
The biggest problem with the Greens is their inexperience with electoral politics, and their stridency over things people already agree with them about.
If we could change the world by showing up to vote every couple years, I think we'd have done it by now. Like I said, the place the murderous US finds itself in today is profoundly complex. It has become such an entrenched global empire that nothing short of the government being overthrown in a revolution can change it, and I don't foresee that happening any time soon. Despite the remote possiblity (statistically nil actually) of our overthrowing the government at the ballot box, no one will ever succeed at doing it.
There are extreme limits on what can be accomplished through electoral politics, because of the ability of politicians to set up a corrupt system, such as the one we have now, that greases the wheel of bribery of the government by the wealthy. The expectation that this can be changed by the beneficiaries of graft, bribery, and corruption voluntarily giving up their wealth and power to help "the little fella" is ludicrous in the extreme, and where I draw the line with liberals like Wellstone.
Change will never come from within the electoral political system. Never. It will only come from the pressures put upon that system from outside of it. And we are a long way from that happening.
Nonetheless, it is the only way to fight the good fight, and what we should be concentrating upon, rather than piecemeal petty "reforms" which get instantly subverted, such as the campaign finance reform bill that takes effect today. John McCain admitted last night that the intent of the law has already been subverted by the two party interests that be.