Sitting This One Out

The last straw for me was the spectacle of all the "serious candidates" falling over one another to link Castro and Chávez with Ahmadinejad, bin Laden, and Kim, thus endorsing the Bush Administration's view that any government that does anything that ours doesn't like-including g...

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Published in:The Progressive (Madison) 2007-11, Vol.71 (11), p.26
Main Author: Reed, Jr., Adolph L
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil disobedience
Civil rights movements
Comic books
Demonstrations & protests
Health care
Political parties
Politics
Presidential elections
Product differentiation
Welfare reform
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Summary:The last straw for me was the spectacle of all the "serious candidates" falling over one another to link Castro and Chávez with Ahmadinejad, bin Laden, and Kim, thus endorsing the Bush Administration's view that any government that does anything that ours doesn't like-including giving its own people's needs higher priority than those of our corporations-qualifies it as a supporter of terrorism, a rogue state, part of the Axis of Evil, or whatever comic book slogan is operative this week. Each serious candidate has boosters who will tell us that we should be more sophisticated than to take what their candidates say at face value, that their empty, inadequate, or objectionable proposals are the best, most realistic versions of whatever we think we want-from ending the war, to universal national health care and access to quality education, to public investment in rebuilding the Gulf Coast and the rest of the country's physical and social infrastructure, to worker protection and fighting environmental degradation.
ISSN:0033-0736
2162-8785