This election season swung into gear this time on an unprecedentedly accelerated time frame. Why? The powers that be want to take our collective minds off of the fact that the president and vice-president are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity every single day and to try to get us to think a year ahead of time that we can change this - without addressing the fact that these crimes are occurring now and that unless they're held accountable for them, not only are people being tortured every day but the precedents being set by this administration will be the new normal. Torture and rendition, signing statements that negate Congressional intent, spying on each and every one of us by our government, invading other countries that do not threaten us and have not attacked us (the highest war crime of all) will be the new normal.
Fact: What does make a difference is the degree to which the people are politically mobilized as an independent political force in the society. See Howard Zinn's works. See the labor movement of the 1930s. See the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. See the anti-war and women's movements of the 1960s. If the people are so mobilized, who is occupying the White House, what their political party and ideology and programme are, doesn't matter. Nixon, after all, pulled us out of Vietnam, against his will. If the people are not politically mobilized, then it doesn't matter how good the person in the White House is, it could even be a communist or socialist, and he or she would be powerless to do anything but the bidding of the elites.
Fact: What does make a difference is the degree to which the people are politically mobilized as an independent political force in the society. See Howard Zinn's works. See the labor movement of the 1930s. See the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. See the anti-war and women's movements of the 1960s. If the people are so mobilized, who is occupying the White House, what their political party and ideology and programme are, doesn't matter. Nixon, after all, pulled us out of Vietnam, against his will. If the people are not politically mobilized, then it doesn't matter how good the person in the White House is, it could even be a communist or socialist, and he or she would be powerless to do anything but the bidding of the elites.
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