Re: electability (was elite-bashing)
On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
As far as Americans are concerned, most of them don’t really believe in being the same in god’s sight or equal opportunity or level playing fields, despite what religion or the constitution says. Why do I know that? Because they believe in “electability.” What is electability but the fact of having enough support of the ruling class and therefore having a shot at high office? The dominant ideology is deference to the Master Class.
You’re taking American exceptionalism too far. People everywhere
practice strategic voting. The problem isn’t really in the electoral
realm - it’s that our level of extra-electoral organization and
consciousness is fairly primitive.
Doug