Note: This is an older post from my Blogger days.
Below is a letter written to Joshua Frank in response to his article entitled ” It’s 2004 All Over Again . . . ” Nothing that I have seen in the days following the elections, including Rumsfeld’s resignation, has changed my mind about the socio-political situation in the country and what will have to happen for progressive change to happen here. Considering how prolific a writer Mr. frank has been, I thought I would get a more sanguine response other than a message thanking me for writing. My guess is that although Mr. Frank clearly knows what is up with the two party duopoly, he still cannot quite bring himself to see what the utlimate implications are. As I’ve mentioned before in previous blog entries, the crisis within global Capitalism in general, and American Capitalism in particular. It will ultimately lead to an explosion. In the next few months to a year the Democrats will be exposed for what they are; the ruling class’s B-Team. As such, they will simply deal with aesthetics rather than a real change in course whether it has to do with Iraq or the ongoing economic race to the bottom U. S. workers are in the thick of. Eventually, we’ll see either civil war or revolution in the streets in this United States of America. Continue reading
