"But the world isn't like that."

[Otto]

Then the Democrats must be changed from within to become a real alternative
to the present power-cartel.

Carter, Clinton, Gore, Stark, Nader -- these are prominent names.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wright AIA" <mwaia at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: "But the world isn't like that."


> Howdy
>
> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> > In my opinion the only chance for America to return to democracy
> > (given the
> > latest decision on Bush's "Ermächtigungsgesetz") is a third party to
> > have an
> > alternative
>
> Would that this were true. "Third parties" only have that effect in
> parliamentary democracies where parties must form coalitions to govern,
> and then appoint the executive. In the US, the executive is chosen by
> popular vote on a state by state basis. (Which allows for some tricky
> arithmetic, as we've seen. Remember how Bush used to deride "Washington
> arithmetic" in his campaign? How he must smirk at what "fuzzy math" did
> for him.) To vote for the third choice is to opt out, and see *every
> single one* of your values and policy preferences set back, rather than
> advanced. Without exception.
>
> Your Greens make policy in partnership at the cabinet level in the your
> government's executive aparatus. I wish that a Green vote in the US
> could have the same effect. Here, to vote Green election is to vote
> Republican. I wish that it weren't true, but that's the fact. Perot had
> a different effect, but then his
> corporate-pseudo-populist/nationalist-and-all-but-neo-fascist pitch was
> too complicated to parse, allowing him to draw from the same base of
> confused have-nots that the Republicans have snookered for so long.
> Giving us Bill Clinton, for whom I am still thankful.
>
> Mark
>

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