At 12:14 PM 10/12/00 -0500, Jim Burnes wrote:
Actually, your vote should be about getting what you want, not what you don't want. The quickest way to do that now is to consistently vote for the worst possible candidate. Only by maximally accellerating the downward spiral this country has been in for 70 years or more will the sheeple start to wake up.
Feh. Voting for the occasional crazy may be worthwhile (like Ross Perot, who may have been a scary guy but was no worse than Bush; Clinton may have been scary before the fact but in practice turned out surprisingly good, in large part because his personal ethics problems kept him tied up all the time.) Causing more evil mainly gets more sheeple in the mood for evil - Germany's hundred-plus years of militarism and National and International Socialism wasn't worth the cost.
Like I've said before. When you have alcohol poisoning the best thing to do is dump your stomach contents. Get the poison out. You won't do it by gradually falling asleep and dying from it.
Yeah - but you do that by drinking ipecac, not by drinking Everclear. Like, gag me with a spoon....
If our great grandfathers went into suspended animation in 1910 and were awakened now they would be in shock. Not just from the technology, but with the willingness with which we tolerate our enslavement.
Let's see - the generation that brought us the Income Tax, Prohibition, "Separate but Equal" Supreme Court support for mandatory segregation, The War To End All Wars, Teddy Roosevelt/Hearst Newspapers invading Cuba, Schenck busted for speaking against the draft before the US joined WW1 and the Supreme Court voting that his conviction was just fine, the destructive reparations against Germany that led to the rise of fascism, pro-inflation Populists, monopolies and trust-busters... Most people from that day would feel right at home, except for little details like cars and MTV and lack of decent trains, and the government bribing sheeple wholesale instead of Tammany retail. There are a few differences - the union movement has wimped out, with the AFLCIO as a conservative establishment-joining bargaining group, compared with the Wobblies and other real strikers, and by now more people believe that Communism is bad, and they've got mixed feelings about working for big companies instead of running small businesses themselves after most of a century. But mostly it's the same old same old. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639