To all the "I'm much too enlightened for Obama" crowd

[djwilson]

believe me, you are no friend of the working class, even Noam Chomsky thinks so:

CHOMSKY: Well, I would suggest voting against McCain, which means voting for Obama without illusions, because all the elevated rhetoric about change and hope and so on will dissolve into standard centrist Democratic policies if he takes office. However, there is a

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[modysoul]

Good read. I just finished reading an article in Socialist Worker about why this person wasn't voting for Obama. It's an issue that tears me apart every election.... :\

[toho]

I'm not torn apart by the decision here. When relatively affluent people and their adult children are foaming at the mouth speaking about Obama, insisting that "America" will be worse off with him as Prez, I know I'm making the right decision.

This is one of many booster shots in the ass that we, the working class, the unemployed, underemployed, underpaid, the forgotten pensioners, homeless, and soon-to-be-homeless really need. But it doesn't happen without action from multiple angles. I'm sick of anarchist negativity. I just want positive social change and it ain't coming from that self-imposed ghetto.

[sonsofspartacus]

Ew, what a liberal.

Im stealing this post.

VOTE SOCIALIST!

Clarification.

[sonsofspartacus]

I meant what I said literally. Not in a McCain "OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST ARAB!"
kind of way.

I mean.
Ew, what a liberal...instead of a radical.

and...

Actually, literally
VOTE SOCIALIST!

[satanscientist]

I've said this to people before, that in voting (which takes about 5 minutes of your time and doesn't take away from organizing all that other stuff), it's easier to organize when you're not on the defensive all the time.

If you want to look at it from the anarchist point of view, in spain in the 1934 election, the anarchists, espicially in the huge cnt union, abstained from the election, and a right-wing government was elected and the unions and leftists faced severe repression. In the 1936 elections, the anarchists went to the polls and a left-wing government was elected. The repression stopped and as the country faced civil war, the revolution happened in catalonia.

Not saying that 2008 America is 1936 Spain or that Obama is a revolutionary or anything, just that it don't pay to ignore the power structures sometimes.

[mckymouseisdead]

Chomsky raises the points. However i still wouldn't call the Democrats "Friends" of the working class