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Arundhati Roy's missing piece
It's a shame that an eloquent speaker and inspiring activist like Arundhati Roy has apparently missed this critical piece of the election equation in the U.S.
When Arundhati Roy spoke at the American Sociological Association in San Francisco last week she made the case for the dilemma of the duopoly here in the U.S. Sadly, she left the imminent danger of a looming police state out of the equation.
If one took Roy's speech as the end all of analysis concerning our present situation with the two-headed hydra of empire, one might think it doesn't matter whether you vote for TweedleDee or TweedleDum(b) this November. This observer views Roy's analysis as incomplete and as such, dangerous.
This time around it DOES matter. TweedleDee will continue business as usual (with a degree of ecological awareness), but TweedleDumb and his neo-con handlers will continue business on steroids AND may well institute a total police state (as opposed to the partial one now in place). There IS a difference there friends, a BIG difference.
I guess by now you've noticed that we are not living in normal times. Even many mainstream political observers are finally waking up to just how VERY dangerous the fundamentalist neo-con onslaught in Washington really is. George W. Bush's own father, the former President, refers to his son's neo-con friends as the "crazies". If you don't feel the chill you're not paying attention. I'm looking 60 in the face over here and I've NEVER seen anything in this nation that looks remotely as threatening to freedom, democracy, the U.S. Constitution and the well being of the biosphere as the junta that now occupies the White House.
Never has holding your nose and voting for the Dems been more important. Yes, of course it sucks, but voting for Nader or not voting at all will be fodder for the end of what little democracy we have left. The lives of my children and my grandchildren are far more important; your lives and those of your loved ones are far more important. We can deal with the duopoly and the corporados under Kerry soon enough, but under an entrenched Bush regime you'll be lucky if you can take any action at all. Think pre-war Germany here.
It's a shame that an eloquent speaker and inspiring activist like Arundhati Roy has apparently missed this critical piece of the election equation in the U.S. Worse, there are those here in the States who may well take her incomplete analysis to heart and help usher in the last days of what little democracy remains. Hopefully someone will point this out to her.
If one took Roy's speech as the end all of analysis concerning our present situation with the two-headed hydra of empire, one might think it doesn't matter whether you vote for TweedleDee or TweedleDum(b) this November. This observer views Roy's analysis as incomplete and as such, dangerous.
This time around it DOES matter. TweedleDee will continue business as usual (with a degree of ecological awareness), but TweedleDumb and his neo-con handlers will continue business on steroids AND may well institute a total police state (as opposed to the partial one now in place). There IS a difference there friends, a BIG difference.
I guess by now you've noticed that we are not living in normal times. Even many mainstream political observers are finally waking up to just how VERY dangerous the fundamentalist neo-con onslaught in Washington really is. George W. Bush's own father, the former President, refers to his son's neo-con friends as the "crazies". If you don't feel the chill you're not paying attention. I'm looking 60 in the face over here and I've NEVER seen anything in this nation that looks remotely as threatening to freedom, democracy, the U.S. Constitution and the well being of the biosphere as the junta that now occupies the White House.
Never has holding your nose and voting for the Dems been more important. Yes, of course it sucks, but voting for Nader or not voting at all will be fodder for the end of what little democracy we have left. The lives of my children and my grandchildren are far more important; your lives and those of your loved ones are far more important. We can deal with the duopoly and the corporados under Kerry soon enough, but under an entrenched Bush regime you'll be lucky if you can take any action at all. Think pre-war Germany here.
It's a shame that an eloquent speaker and inspiring activist like Arundhati Roy has apparently missed this critical piece of the election equation in the U.S. Worse, there are those here in the States who may well take her incomplete analysis to heart and help usher in the last days of what little democracy remains. Hopefully someone will point this out to her.
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I plan to vote for Kerry, with the possibly misguided belief that Bush's defeat will energize global opposition to US policy, but it's this kind of condescension, this American political ethnocentrism, that perpetually frustrates the rest of the world
criticizing Roy for failing to propagandize your agenda, when most of the people backing Kerry have never spent a single day of concern about the issues of globalization and preemptive war (Kerry voted for it, remember?) that legitimately motivate her is really embarassing
but, I guess if the Anybody But Bush crowd feel entitled to control the left in America, and dictate what should and should not be said, who should and should not be on the ballot, it's only logical that they feel entitled to dictate to Roy what she should say as well
as with the ABB' crowd's scorched earth attitude toward Nader and the Greens, this type of post doesn't motivate more people to vote for Kerry, it alienates them
or, as an activist told me once, you attract more flies with sugar than vinegar