Antisemitism?

[Nathan Thurm]

Plutocracy means simply government by the wealthy. I'm not aware of any 
anti-semitic connotations but I could be wrong.

From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org (Pynchon-L)
CC: an.meyer at freenet.de
Subject: Antisemitism?
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 05:59:32 EST

Has the following statement you can read below the smell of antisemitism or 
not? I could agree with many of what this Mr. Calhoun says but "plutocracy" 
is an antisemite metaphor, isn't it?


Thema:  Democracy?
Datum:  05.11.01 07:53:58 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit
From:   hoon at APK.NET (Stephen Calhoun)
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all,

The United States is a plutocracy with a rancid patina of Democracy
effected to fake most people who actually vote, out.

The Supreme Court's decision in the election dispute was a total political 
end-around the constitution; the congress's "Economic Stimulus Act" even the 
secretary of treasury called it by its true intention; and voter reform in 
the form of four different bills, and campaign finance reform, will not soon 
meaningfully be enacted here. Republicans have been staunchly against 
universal motor registration and *every* Federal legislative attempt to 
significantly increase voter participation over thirty years.

Dick Armey at the beginning of last week all but came out and directly said 
federalization of aviation transport security would create a new group of 
democratic unionized voters, thus he was ag'in it.

Then there is the long and appalling history of what our government's
attitude toward democracy in other countries is, when that 'other'
democracy elects someone we do not like at all. (At times what we have done 
is have those democratic winners murdered.)

I could go on and on. Voting rates track class, education, and race in
significant ways.

My own opinion is that our democratic system is completely corrupted by
money, mendacity, and marketing.

Plutocracy; governance by the wealthy to the benefit of the wealthy. That's 
the 'way of life' Dubya is referring to when he speaks of the reasons. . .

***

regards,

Stephen



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