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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
On this dreary wet Tuesday morning, one week after the mid-term General Elections, as usual, I woke up, said my morning prayer, relieved myself, washed up and made a pot of hot coffee.
I was thinking about what the cost of the U.S. Mid-term election was in dollar signs. So I did a Google Search and got a few interesting results cited far below. I found out that the Overall Cost of the Midterm Election was from $2.6 Billion to $2.8 Billion dollars and that is billion with a ‘B’!
So the electoral circus came to town and left wherever circuses go until the next round of Elections in 2008 when I am sure many billions will be spent by the two main contending parties: the two-headed monster of the Democratic and Republican Parties. Plus, independent parties will go for it again, though, they should concentrate on winnable local elections.
The same as many progressive-minded humane people I was pleased with the results of the 2006 Mid-term elections and that, for better or worse, the Democratic Party finally took over the U.S. Congress House and Senate. In the end, the people get the government they deserve by their active direct participation on voting day! If eligible voters do not vote their choices who is a fault?
In California, my choice for Governor was Phil Angelides as a winnable candidate, but alas he did not win against the shrewd Governator Arnold S. who knows how to drift from left to right and land in a centrist position.
Angelides did not have the bold courage to come out in full support for general amnesty for undocumented immigrants, but instead advocated the unworkable long-term path to citizenship proposed by many which will not work for the 12 Million + immigrants already here now inside the United States. Minus, Angelides could not close the percentage gap as he did with Westly in the closing weeks of the Governor’s Campaign. Minus, he should of come out more stridently against the Amerikan Occupation in Iraq when he first kicked off his campaign. Angelides lost, Arnold won and political life goes on.
Companero Peter Camejo of the Green Party held true to his humane ethics in his last symbolic bid for high office and did not have to curry favor with the middle-class as Angelides tried to do and lost.
I remember him from the early 70's in the Bay Area when he was with the Young Socialist Alliance and he has remained true to his self over these tumultuous decades.
One should always take and keep a strong stand on basic humane principles, not be swayed by passing winds of devious doctrine or warped by popular opinion of the U.S. general population still suffering from terrorist paranoia and a form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) post-911 2001.
In traditional electoral politics there is always the struggle between the positions of doing what is right and most humane on the moral high ground and what is popular and politically correct in order to win a given election. Humane principles should remain in our hearts; political elections come and go. Many times it is not an either-or stance on a position that counts as much as what one emphasizes more in his political statements. Who feeds the feeders of public opinion? In electoral politics, there is often the crime of omission or ignoring the obvious while people bleed to death because of insane domestic and foreign policies.
Anyways, life goes on and I am glad the Democratic Party won control of the U.S. Congress, that is, both the House and the Senate. However, I wonder if we are not all left with the lesser of two evils again, as usual, as a result of these elections. I know that sometimes alliances are transitory in politics and war, not permanent.
The Maoist dictum remains: politics is still war without bloodshed and war is politics with bloodshed or by ‘other alternative means’.
Clearly, Amerikan electoral politics has a long ways to go before it can be really considered a democratic process when you have to be super-rich to run for high office or beholden to the super-rich. Most rational-thinking people realize the determining power of big money politics whether they registered with the duo-poly of the Democratic and Republican Parties or independent voters. U.S. Elections are actually bought by cold hard cash more than won by excited voters.
A lot of electoral politics and politicians are now focused on the 2008 Presidential Elections, though, we must not forget the day-to-day basic survival needs of the people, including the general call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops out of Iraq and the condemnation of any further U.S. military misadventures in the Third World, such as what is being projected in Latin America. A ‘Latin-nam’ scenario has already been building up for decades in key Latin American countries, but the Amerikan Empire and its Killing Machine got caught up in the Middle East. Nevertheless, the handwriting written in blood is already on the wall to be seen by those who dare to see!
All progressive organizations, political groups and individuals now need to focus on voter registration and community education on the local level with a global overview.
Today, I propose the creation of VOTE, an acronym for Voters Organized To Educate, that will provide local leadership, have paid daily staff and be equipped with local offices in our poor communities in order to promote voter registration/education drives during the most crucial election time, that is, the time between general elections before the general population gets bombarded with political ads, slogans and campaigns. VOTE would register all people of any party with the ideal being to GET OUT THE VOTE ON ELECTION DAY!
Why not put TWO BILLION PLUS into voter registration and community education among the people in our poor and oppressed communities impacted by public elections instead of negative campaign ads? Common sense is often a rare quality in today’s crazed politics. Whether we win public elections or not, the People’s Liberation Movement needs to utilize the whole realm of electoral politics in order to raise consciousness and mobilize the masses as a mean to the end true strategic goal of the People’s Empowerment!
The repressed mentality is scarred by the desire for and fear of true liberation. For poor, oppressed and repressed peoples liberation means socialism. Let not the Amerikan fascist propaganda machine twist your mind against your own survival interests. Clearly we should all see the urgent need for an alternative economic system to corporate capitalism!
The question of the Third Millennium: How do we create a true socialist democracy inside the United States and true socialist democracies throughout the world where the people actively participate in their government? Total liberation must be worldwide.
Let all progressive partisans have clear basic definitions of what democracy and socialism is all about:
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Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy
Pronunciation: di-'mä-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dEmokratia, from dEmos + -kratia -cracy
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2 : a political unit that has a democratic government
3 capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the United States
4 : the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5 : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
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Main Entry: so·cial·ism
Pronunciation: 'sO-sh&-"li-z&m
Function: noun
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
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Does that not beat what we have now under a half-disguised fascist corporate capitalism as the many poor parents dread the expense of another Christmas?
Look at the great positive strides of democratic socialism in Latin America! OUR America includes all of North America, Central America and South America. The term America is not the exclusive domain of the U.S.A. We must come together and totally liberate all of the Americas from domestic capitalism and foreign imperialism!
It’s the Ballot or the Bullet!
Fight Back Against the Amerikan Empire!
Peta-de-Aztlan, Field Coordinator
HumanE Liberation Party
Sacramento, Califas, Divided States
Yahoo Email= sacranative@yahoo.com
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Web Sources=
http://www.opensecrets.org/pressreleases/2006/PreElection.10.25.asp
Center for Responsive Politics Predicts '06 Election Will Cost $2.6 Billion
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http://elections.gmu.edu/voter_turnout.htm
2006 Voter Turnout
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103000712.html
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; 12:00 AM
The Competitive Problem of Voter Turnout
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102701474.html
Sunday, October 29, 2006
5 Myths About Turning Out The Vote
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