Revolution #019, October 23, 2005, posted at revcom.us
Two points.
One, they’re not gonna win.
Two, if they did somehow win, it wouldn’t mean a damn thing. The Democrats agree with the Republicans on the questions of war and repression, and they’ve proven that they won’t challenge them on the ones they do disagree over.
The causes and reasons for all that have been explained elsewhere in the pages of this paper. But the real deal itself--that, again, they won’t win, and that even if they did somehow win they have neither the capability nor the intention of fundamentally changing the dynamics of today’s political life--is there.
Stop dreaming; or rather, start dreaming for real, and start fighting to make the dream happen. Throw in with November 2.