I don't even feel like I have accomplished anything by voting except to
do my small part to keep my rejection of the bourgeois candidates being
construed as apathy. If it wasn't for the fact that abstention is always
described as apathy there would be no point in voting in bourgeois
elections. A far better way to participate in politics is to be
organizing unions and strikes and to organize marches and demonstrations.
---
David Hume
“ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees
of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral
evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ”
― David Hume,
On 11/2/2019 9:19 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I'm so discouraged. I feel like the only effect of voting is psychological. We
feel like we've accomplished something.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2019 7:54 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] 2020 campaign reflects crisis
of US rulers’ two party system
Two Parties, Three Parties, or only One Party. It makes little difference when the Power
is held by our Landed Gentry, the owners of the United States of America. Even if we
eliminated all political parties nothing would change so long as the existing
Establishment holds the control. Another long, hard fought election is coming around in
one short year...after we've already subjected ourselves to about two years of
campaigning. Billions of dollars change hands, but only among the "Political
Players". That is not most of us.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/2/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/11/02/2020-campaign-reflects-crisis-of-us
-rulers-two-party-system/
2020 campaign reflects crisis of US rulers??? two party system
??By Terry Evans
Vol. 83/No. 41
November 11, 2019
Well short of the backing they need from Republicans to impeach and
oust President Donald Trump before the 2020 election, many Democrats
are becoming increasingly nervous that none of the 18 candidates
contesting their party???s presidential nomination is capable of
beating him at the polls.
???There is genuine concern that the horse many have bet on [Joe
Biden] may be pulling up lame,??? David Axelrod, a long-time
Democratic Party operative and former adviser to Barack Obama, told the New
York Times.
???And the horse who has sprinted out front [Elizabeth Warren] may not
be able to win.???
The crusade to impeach and indict Trump is driven by liberals???
contempt for ??? and fear of ??? the millions of working people who
either voted for
Trump in 2016, or who couldn???t bring themselves to vote for either
candidate of the two main capitalist parties. Convinced that these
workers are backward and bigoted, liberals want at all costs to get
Trump out now to prevent working people from electing him again in 2020.
Hillary Clinton, who smeared Trump supporters as ???deplorables???
when she
lost to him in 2016, has stepped up her public appearances, refusing
to rule out running again. Others from her wing of the party, like
former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Secretary of State
John Kerry are being urged to get into the race.
Weeks after launching their impeachment inquiry into the president ???
built around secret hearings and copious leaks to the press ???
Democrats now say they will put authorization for their inquisition up
for a vote in the House.
Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi says that the six House
committees investigating Trump will then place their ???findings???
before the Judiciary Committee so it can?? consider filing articles of
impeachment.
But liberals aren???t convinced that their ???evidence??? against
Trump will
be sufficient to get him thrown out. It rests on the president???s
request that the Ukrainian government probe corruption, including
Hunter Biden???s efforts to profit from his father???s position as vice
president.
So they continue to dig around on other fronts. New York prosecutors
got a court ruling that Trump must hand over his tax returns to a
criminal investigation they are pursuing, a move the president appealed Oct. 23.
The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee has sued the Treasury
Department and the Internal Revenue Service to try to force them to
hand over Trump???s returns.
Their goal is to criminalize those they disagree with.
Democrats use of FBI and CIA agents against Trump opens the door for
the use of the U.S. rulers??? political police and criminal
???justice??? system
against others they see as enemies. First and foremost this includes
militant workers the U.S. rulers fear will wage struggles to defend
themselves under the impact of the deepening crisis of capitalism.
Leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters
union were convicted in 1941 for organizing opposition among workers
to the rulers??? drive to join the Second World War. This attack was
led by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the liberals who
stocked his administration.
Stability of two-party system shaken
The ruling rich have not been able to restore the stability of their
two-party system, damaged in 2016. That setup works by convincing
working people that their only ???choice??? is to cast their votes for
the ???lesser evil??? ??? one of the two main capitalist parties.
The swath of Democratic and Republican candidates in 2016 evoked
unprecedented distrust and loathing from wide layers of working people.
Trump said he stood outside of the Washington quagmire, claiming to be
different from all factions within both parties. From the moment he
got elected, Democrats and their mouthpieces in the liberal media like
the New York Times?? have been in a frenzy to undo the result.
Both wings of the Democratic Party believe impeachment would help
clear their way to power. The left and socialist wing of the party
wants a road to the presidency built on turning their back on the
majority of the working class they dismiss as reactionary. They
believe they can get elected by winning votes of African Americans,
Latinos, and women largely in the big cities.
Elizabeth Warren, the front runner for the Democrats??? nomination,
says she???s a radical-minded capitalist who will manipulate taxes and
use an army of federal regulatory agencies to manage the big
corporations and make capitalist exploitation more agreeable. Bernie
Sanders offers similar policies in the name of ???socialism.??? Both
contrive to treat workers as objects to be administered.
Like Trump they both say they dislike U.S. wars abroad, but all of
them will continue to command Washington???s vast military power in
defense of U.S. imperialist interests around the world, if elected.
???In contrast to the Democrats, Republicans and other politicians who
seek to reform capitalism, Socialist Workers Party candidates start
with the capacities of working people to change our conditions,???
Seth Galinsky, SWP candidate for New York City public advocate, told
the Militant.
???We organize together with fellow workers to fight against assaults
by the bosses, their parties and their government. We advocate
building a labor party, independent of the capitalist parties. Such a
course offers a way to mobilize workers in our millions to take power
out of the hands of the capitalist rulers and establish a workers and farmers
government.???
In This Issue
Front Page Articles ???After 40-day strike GM workers approve contract
???Back strikers??? fight against copper bosses??? union busting
???SWP drive to sell books to explain party, its program ???Protests
in Iraq, Lebanon target government, Tehran interference
???2020 campaign reflects crisis of US rulers??? two party system
???UFCW union local says ???No!??? to any prison ban of ???Militant???
Feature Articles ???The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party
Also In This Issue ???Hong Kong protests back Catalan independence
fight ???Blackjewel miners??? encampment protest wins back pay
???Striking Chicago teachers, school workers win support ???Florida
ex-felons push back restrictions on right to vote ???Socialist Workers
Party Fund Drive Oct. 5 - Dec. 10 (Week 3) ???Fall Campaign to sell
Militant subscriptions and books Oct. 5 - Dec. 10 (Week 3)
On the Picket Line ???Steelworkers in New Brunswick fight Glencore
lockout ???Quebec senior residence workers strike for wages and more
staff
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-?? New
York, NY 10018?? -?? themilitant@xxxxxxx
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David Hume
??? In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all
imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the
lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions
his belief to the evidence. ???
??? David Hume,