alanjjohnstone
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When the privileged are not fully privileged
“No section of the working class is privileged. ”
So we deny South Africa’s or Israel’s apartheid or the American South’s Jim (and Juan) Crow laws or policies such as Australia’s past “white -only” immigration rules.
LBJ once said “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
And as Dixiecrat politician he would know.
So the corollary to not wanting to be known as a “do-gooder”, it is to be known as a “do-badder”?
By recognizing that there was racial bias and that certain groups were indeed bought off with particular privileges not granted to all does not mean that the solution is not socialism. Nor does it require building an identity scale of prejudice to show that some suffer more than others. The disabled deprived of facilities, for instance, or the stigma of being one of the mentally unwell. The most under-reported ism is ageism.
Who would be at the top, an unemployed old ugly lesbian female paraplegic psychiatric patient who is black and a beef-eating Muslim living in a Hindu community?
The State can remove the discriminatory laws as unnecessary obstacles to the functioning of the capitalist economy but they cannot so easily remove the legacy that linger long after they are meant to cease and it also merely drive anti-social attitudes underground to re-surface in another disguised form.
In Scotland bigotry persisted, not by asking someone’s religion, but by asking what school a person went to. (reflected in class-society, too, by the old-school tie)
The roots of Royal Mail’s seniority policy for job selection was deemed as discriminatory because new recruits i.e. newly arrived migrants did not have equal opportunity, yet it was as i was led to believe introduced to end management’s power of delegating jobs as they saw fit and sometimes religion in the case of Scotland and Northern Ireland was a factor in choosing a person for a particular job or delivery office so the commonality we all shared was length of service was made the deciding factor, although it did not make us all equal.
Pun intended – the world is not an all black and white place, there are plenty of greys, being colour-blind is still a form of blindness.
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Put the blog up now
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-red-flag-or-stars-stripes.html
The write-in states are
Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont
The fear is that the mail-in vote will be sabotaged by Trump and the Republicans as overall the Democratic Party are the beneficiaries of postal votes.
His Post Office appointee tried to slow down the mail processing times, the designated drop off points for postal ballots have been reduced.
The election campaign is all over. People have already decided who they are voting for. The debates merely entrench existing views, not change opinions. There are no longer any swing-votes to garner.
The problem is that there are no unified federal regulation of election in America. Each state decides much of the eligibility. For example there is the variety of shut-off dates for mail votes. Washington State has almost three weeks after election day for mail votes to be counted whereas Louisiana , they have to be returned the day before the election date.
https://apnews.com/article/how-soon-us-election-results-ba17f0528c1742187f275b634b06c1d1
I have a blog post in the pipeline concerning write-in votes. Basically there are only seven states that accept such votes unconditionally, nine reject them out-right and the rest only if they meet certain pre-set conditions.
Hmmmm…??
The Wee Frees have a good name and they are doom and gloom like myself, all hell-fire and brimstone.
They don’t really like anything such as Christmas or Easter or having fun on a Sunday – quite moderate views, in my opinion 😛
The come-back of Evo Morales
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/17/bolivia-election-socialism-luis-arce-evo-morales
More evidence that elections do in fact have political power…
He is part of the Justice Democrats, the AOC-wing
We condemn the atrocity as terrorism and that such tactics can only reinforce islamophobia and lead to the harm of those who follow the Muslim faith. It is an act that is not in the slightest interest of the vast majority of Muslims and such violence plays straight into the hands of bigots and racists who will take advantage of the anger of all reasonable people to increase hatred between peoples for political gain.
I’m no economic expert but the argument against the inflationary case is given elsewhere on this forum, LT, which you i noticed have comment upon with a collapseist viewpoint
As an observer has pointed out, not one on these long lines is wearing a MAGA baseball cap
And indeed the political experts claim that it is indeed Democratic Party voters who are predominant, by 2 to 1
But it will be still election-day that is crucial, as that is when the majority of Republicans intend to vote.
According to Steve Bannon, Trump should declare he won on election night before all votes are counted and that is why Clinton says Biden cannot concede on election night (mis-quoted that Biden shouldn’t concede at all)
“…Although Trump loves to tout the stock market gains that have occurred during his tenure, Wall Street has donated more money to Biden and Democrats this election cycle than to the president and his party. Biden has praised and reassured corporate leaders, shareholders, and the wealthiest Americans, promising to not “demonize” them and vowing that “nothing would fundamentally change” for them if he is elected…The former senator from Delaware—a state known as a haven for banks and corporate headquarters—cast key votes to deregulate the banking and financial services industries, which showered him in campaign cash and other support. Biden was also a leading champion of a bill that made it much more difficult for Americans to declare bankruptcy—just before the most devastating economic crisis since the Great Depression. ..As vice president during what many progressives derisively called the “Goldman Sachs administration”—for the number of Wall Street and corporate executives it employed, the amount of corporate donations it received, and how it was influenced by big money interests—Biden played a key role in advancing what many saw as President Barack Obama’s Wall Street and corporatist agenda. “
So what will be new this time? There will be some progressives who won’t agree but they will not be in the majority, nor hold any influence.
More than 22m Americans had voted early by Friday, either in person or by mail, according to the US Election Project. At the same point in the 2016 race, about 6m votes had been cast.
…long lines, with some people waiting for up to 11 hours for an opportunity to vote.
Would i wait all day in a tiring queue to spoil my ballot paper…ummm…i doubt it
