Contradictions of an election in an imperialist country

In Florida disenfranchised Jewish voters demand that their votes for 
Gore and Lieberman be counted, yet Gore and Lieberman are strong 
supporters of Israeli oppression of Palestinians.

Disenfranchised Haitian American voters also demand that their votes 
for Gore and Lieberman be counted, although the Clinton-Gore 
administration supported the 1991 coup against Aristide, supported 
the coup government that murdered thousands of Haitians, and only 
agreed to return Aristide to Haiti after he promised to abandon his 
reform efforts and instead to impose structural adjustment on the 
Haitian people.

Neither Palestinians nor Haitians who have been victims of US
imperialism and its client regimes for many decades had any
opportunity to vote in this election.

Vietnamese Americans voted in the U.S. presidential election, but
Pres. Bill Clinton arrives in Vietnam today to promote US investment
and trade with a country in which the US imperialism killed some
three million people during a quarter century of war.  Both Democrats
and Republicans have yet to be called to account for that crime
against humanity. 

These are some of the contradictions of elections held by the ruling 
class of an imperialist country.

Steve Rosenthal