Maoist Internationalist Movement

Democrats: Ugly people in the mirror

August 25 2008

About Democratic chances

This year the Democrats should be cruising; however, party identification trends have now turned against them.

McCain, Guiliani, Rice and Powell are probably the only four Republicans the party could have nominated to go up against the Democrats and have a chance. The other reason that the polls are in a tie is that the top two Democrats have severe underlying political problems.

For a generic Democrat versus Republican contest, the Democrats should have voted for Gravel in the third tier or someone like Bill Richardson. (The John Edwards affair is totally fake, created for political purposes by the same exact reporters who created a fake story about Ted Kennedy.) Instead, big money went to Democrats showing the willingness to have big problems. So now the Democrats are tied and issue threats desperately to stay afloat.

We say it is very sporting of them, because everyone loves a 45% to 45% race. What may differ this time around is that Zogby says Obama can win without Florida, Ohio or Missouri by taking Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.

What Democrats can accomplish

  • On global warming, we cannot rule out that Obama would have 60 Democratic senators in 2009, but it is probably somewhat more likely that McCain would accomplish a trade-and-cap program on global warming by horse-trading with his own party.

  • On Palestine, we do not see either a McCain or Obama administration sticking out its neck.

  • On health care, again if Obama can get into office with 60 Democrats in the Senate, it's one thing. Otherwise, the Massachusetts plan probably has an equal chance under both administrations of becoming a U.$. plan. Perhaps Obama is slightly more likely to get it done.

    The main problem with people to MIM's right is that they prioritize Amerikan issues. So when we asked for leadership of the "RCP" and did not get it, one persyn answered point-blank that she wants "health insurance" as the reason she would not accept the MIM line.

    Only MIM people put the international class struggle first, the international 90/10 as we call it in strategic terms. To most untrained people, the "Revolutionary Communist Party" looks just a tad to MIM's right, but in fact there is not a hairline fracture of difference but a whole chasm separating the two. In practice, we cannot count on them to put the international class struggle first. They seek to use the international class struggle to get health care for rich people, and then call what MIM is doing "academic," mainly because it does not affect them first as Amerikans.

    The people to MIM's right are Amerikan nationalists. As supporters of a health care plan and the labor aristocracy, they deserve the epithet of "national socialists."

    What Democrats have accomplished

    One of the reasons that Democrats resent the international proletariat is that Democrats are like fat people who look in the mirror and see super-models. Many think of themselves as ex-Marxists who bring progress to the world, when in fact they are usually intense expressions of decadence.

  • The Democrats had nothing to do with lowering fatalities in Iraq. They did after taking control in the House in 2006 vote for money for the Iraq War.

  • Democrats even in their most "Left" disguises never opposed the Afghanistan war on principle, and now share blame for the increasing fatalities there.

  • Democrats outflank the Republicans in spending tens of billions on needless "homeland security" programs--a waste of the international proletariat's resources.

  • Democrats are every bit as much involved in domestic surveillance as Republicans.

  • Obama in particular has perfumed imperialism's image more than anything else the last 50 years simply by campaigning. All the State Department's polls show that global effect of demobilizing the proletariat before he has accomplished anything.

    Given all that, it is no wonder that political independents have to stay away from the Democratic Party.

    About Democratic death threats

    The Democrats in some mafia-like guise are issuing death threats against MIM on a regular basis on behalf of Obama. That is nothing new since having to deal with the "Revolutionary Communist Party" wing of the Democratic Party.

    Death threats against isolated migrant worker families would be a problem--an ethical problem in the united $tates. Death threats against bourgeois families are really a problem for the threat-makers.

    With spies swarming around MIM, an expansion of threats to MIM's families becomes a matter of instigating an intra-bourgeois war, CIA vs. CIA etc. That's not to mention intelligent people outside the united $tates.

    Particularly desperate crackertopians call up some contract whitey reserves against MIM, but in actuality they only seal their demographic doom all the faster by taking on bourgeois families. People who think MIM can be threatened or bribed obviously have not paid much attention.

    It is evident that the Democrats have not given much thought to how the international proletariat makes itself felt. No doubt there are resentments, but sooner or later the imperialist parties will have to deal with reality.

    Our suggestion to the Democrats would be to cut the shit and earn their way instead of hoping someone else hands them victory. Political reality has changed and winning should account for new political forces.

    Note:
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021304.php


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