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This is getting into our sub-societal-structure and yea what a fetish we have on elections. So much invested into winning- and then checking out (whew, my side won). We are spinning round and round without any accountability. The pissed off just change sides with the complacent over the same few issues, election after election. No transparency either- just unchecked greed, corruption and carelessness for the future by a uniparty.

I don't know what this future is for the lockstep Democratic party in the congressional minority. I don't see anyone imagining a way out either, just a lot of denial- at least that will end next week. It needs to erupt in division and radical discourse.

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The polling data looks bad for the dismal Dems but who really knows. If I have to eat crow on my prognostications, good. They are the lesser evil, which isn't saying much. Talk about a low bar -- being less evil than a neofascist party ffs. It depressing that all the evidence of the Repubicans' neofascism seems to have zero impact on polling. What we don't know is how many usually non-voting folk will mark ballots. The system itself, including the elections and party system, is the main target in my writing.

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same thing is happening with "Labour" in the UK. Told when to sit. Told when to stand.

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Lesser evilism plays into the hands of capitalism. Anyone who votes for any capitalist party is a traitor to the people.

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Nov 3, 2022Liked by Paul Street

That in my opinion is infantile and even fetal leftist nonsense of the most ridiculous kind. It is inverted ballot fetishism. I'll take somebody who votes lesser evil for five minutes and then engages in revolutionary social movements day in and day out before, during and after the masters' savagely time-staggered electoral extravaganzas over some faux radical clown who never lifts a social movement finger but takes five minutes to mark a ballot (wow!) for the PSL or the Greens or the SWP or the SEP. I mean, ffs, please stop with this.

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Then I have no confidence in you or your reporting. I am an SEP supporter of 25 years' standing and I vote for the SEP candidates and nobody else. You don't know what I've done or what I do so STFU.

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Nov 22, 2022·edited Nov 22, 2022Author

Then I have no confidence in you or your comments. You are an electoralist, a ballot fetishist, which is a very, very silly thing for a purported "Marxist-Leninist" to be. I often read, cite, and quote the WSWS, with whose writers I often agree on key matters including the fascism that has taken ahold of the post-republican/post-bourgeois democratic Republican Party. Your narrow obsession with how people vote is truly idiotic and completely un-Marxist. I'd even go so far as to call it pathetic, said Chicago-style as follows: Pa.Theh..tic. as in ludicrous. :)

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Nov 6, 2022·edited Nov 6, 2022

Among the excellent points raised in Gerstein's emaciation of GOP, Please advocate for "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" to require disclosure of straight payroll labor expense, broken out as a separate item from each of Cost of Goods Sold, R&D, and SG&A, on the EVERY standard "income (P&L) statement" published.

Labor expense is cunningly and purposely hidden in capitalist accounting since inception (ever wonder why?) and no one questions it! And it's the labor that spreads the wealth around in the economy, as i won't preach here. Please also put this item on an agenda!

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Nov 6, 2022·edited Nov 6, 2022

If joe Biden (let's go Brandon) were really worried about FASCISM, why did Biden take Meir Kahane's political movement OFF the US terror list, 6 months(!) BEFORE Bibi Netanyahu returned to power with a Meir Kahane-like party member? US demokrazy is joking. So much ink wasted.

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