Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Bobw sez:

... [to] insist that any democrat we might support sign a pledge of non-intervention [is] a day-dream, since intervention is built into the imperial system....

Further thoughts on making candidates talk about jobs first: it takes attention away from the bogus and distracting pseudo-concept of "national security". National security in fact never means anything except protection of some specific corporate interest, except now, when we have been brainwashed to believe that there is a worldwide terrorist plot to destroy us. What a joke!
Instead of national security, we should be concerned with national well-being -- and even that phrase is somewhat of a phantom. The only thing that's real is individual well-being. National well-being is the sum of all of those, but it is not a thing in itself. Any phrase with "national" in front of it should be treated with great skepticism. It is the language of Goebbels.

i dare by
writing this
come off like
a prickly anal prig

but to me its not a case of either pushing
more jobs now
or
going on a anti gwotnik
rampage

we need two planks
one for each front

a total employment plank
which indeed has foreign policy implications not the least of which is exchange rate rectification

and a foreign bring home the kids
close the bases non intervention plank
which like wise has domestic implicationsfor our trans nat corporations

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as to systemic challenges presented as
reforms
ie targeting
( in this instance )
intervention
not
empire

nothing requires
the possible
and the plausible demand to be withheld
just because
as a practical
matter it stands
the same chance
of florishing
as a lake frog
dropped in the sahara


as mjs points out
its agit pro
it divides the knaves from the saints
and hopefully
it cuts out voting
for
a ton of
"not so evil as them"
orthrian scum that are in fact every bit as evil
or worse
once they cross
the american border

One of the fastest paths to full employment would be the ability to cut the work week while still keeping living wages as a plank. If each employed person works fewer hours, the number of job openings increases.

Of course, the last thing most purveyors of "democracy" really want is more citizens with the time to get involved in politics, even local politics. So I'm not waiting up...

as if to prove my point about who's the lesser evil
once we cross the american border

this vis a vis
north korea's
mystery missile :

"Two former officials of the Clinton Defense Department, including his Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, publicly urged that the Bush administration use a cruise missile launched from a submarine and carrying a high-explosive warhead to destroy the facility where the missile is supposedly housed. According to Mr. Perry and his cohort, Ashton Carter--a former assistant defense secretary under Clinton...."
blah blah blah

http://counterpunch.com/jacobs06232006.html

lovely eh ???

anon x writes:

"Any phrase with "national" in front of it should be treated with great skepticism. It is the language of Goebbels."

apropos this ringing phrase

a JG note circa 1926

"our party task ....
nationalize the german working class "

I again take on JS. Sure, both planks should be part of "the platform", but not just for the purpose of separating the "saints from the knaves". We dont want to just stand on the sidelines and sneer, do we?
We want ringing slogans that appeal to workers' interests, cut through the crap of patriotism and false consciousness, and actually build a movement. Dont we?