Re: Contradictions of an election in an imperialist country

All true, but the alternative - and we really only have two options -
would be much worse.
Whatever our political ideologies might be, the reality is, we live in a
capitalist nation and our choices are limited to Gore/L. or Bush/C. Some
of the Jewish and Haitian voters are also women, and most women don't want
to see a new Supreme Court overturn Roe vs Wade.
I don't see a contradiction - only pragmatism.
Judi Kessler

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Steve Rosenthal wrote:

> 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
>