Alexander Cockburn on the “Glorious Recall”
[This is the sound of denial. How dare Greens and other progressives disrupt Dean’s tidy little march to the Democratic nomination and the head of the American progressive movement by pointing out that the emperor has no clothes? How dare we not sucuumb to the type of “lesser of two evils” politics of “pragmatism” that gave us Gray Davis and $77 million dollars in campaign contributions to barely win the Governorship of California by 5%… and then be recalled on a budget of less than $2 million, because the voters finally figured out that a recall bypasses (at least partially) the lesser of two evils paradigm they’ve been trapped in by corporate America?
We want real, and substantive change. Not symbolic politics and pandering to the middle. None of that will save the planet from destruction, or even slow the process down appreciably.
-Thomas]
If Not Camejo, Then Flynt!
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
… as soon as I said I couldn’t see much reason to get excited about Howard Dean as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, and he seemed to me to be a thoroughly conventional right winger, there was an audible ripple of irritation in the crowd. …