[Texgreen] FW: The "Democratic" difference?

[Gene Akins]

Not sure this got thru....trying again minus additional dialogue......forge 
on.......


>From: "Gene Akins" <geneakins@hotmail.com>
>To: daltexgreens@dallasgreens.net, N_TX_Justice_and_Peace@topica.com, 
>nortxgreens@yahoogroups.com, TexasGreenParty@yahoogroups.com, 
>texgreen@gp-us.org
>Subject: The "Democratic" difference?
>Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:00:52 +0000
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>   Fellow Greens and other fellow travelers:  I was just re-reading an 
>inspiring book by Rahul Mahajan (as you will recall, we ran him for 
>Governor of Texas in 2002) titled: "The New Crusade".
>
>    If you are like me and you chat with a wide array of people about 
>politics (LOL) then you are no doubt aware that many of these folks have 
>fallen for the illusion that there are great differences between the 
>Republicans and the Democrats. Was it Ralph Nader or Ronnie Dugger that 
>originally referred to them as "Republicrats"? Or someone else? Or was it 
>Demopublicans? Oh well, no matter.
>
>   We are certainly going to need all the information we can muster to be 
>able to clearly delineate why we ARE Greens and not some orphaned 
>"left-wing" extreme of the Democrats that only wants our "issues" 
>recognized by our "true brothers and sisters" so that we, for the most 
>part, might return to the fold! Hallelujah!
>
>    The fable that the Dems just recently started falling away from the 
>true faith of the party line really needs to be examined in its historical 
>context.( You know that they have worked untiringly to help the poor, the 
>workers,women's rights, minorities, whatever the hell that means... etc., 
>etc., ad nauseum.) In other words, the "rulers", under cover of the 
>"liberal Democrats" "gave" up a little to "keep" a LOT!
>
>    As I tell some of my new-found friends, its similar to watching 
>professional wrestling and wanting to believe that its for real. Kind of 
>like "good cop/bad cop" too!
>
>   And as for all their "humanitarianism", remember it was a 
>Democrat....Harry S. Truman that brought us Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Tell 
>that to our Asian brethren while the powers that be are defining 
>"terrorism".
>
>   Not to mention the War and then the "carpet bombing" of 
>Vietnam....wasn't that Kennedy and Johnson? Hmm?
>
>   The reason I haven't went as far back as Roosevelt, the saint of the 
>Dems as Lincoln is the saint of the Reps is that I arbitrarily started this 
>post with a thought stimulated by the above referred to Rahul. To wit:
>
>    "The United States has spearheaded a massive economic assault whose 
>effects in toto have been described as re-colonization. Underpinned always 
>by the military power of the United States, this assault has included the 
>use of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to ensnare 
>countries in an inescapable debt trap, thus obliging them to undergo 
>"structural adjustment" and a transition to export-led development, which 
>involves suppressing domestic demand, mainly by lowering the real wages of 
>the workers, and making their economies inputs to the United States and 
>other First World economies---replicating the economic structure of 
>colonialism on a far wider scale. Privatization of state- owned enterprises 
>and currency collapses have led to a massive re-appropriation of the assets 
>of the Third World by corporations in the First. The U.S.-driven 
>proliferation of "free trade" agreements may just be the final nail in the 
>coffin for any hope of independent policy in the Third World. The mechanism 
>of control of the New World Order, the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade 
>Organization, are all, though ostensibly multilateral, dominated by the 
>United States."  pgs. 102-103
>
>    (The underlying logic of this empire was aptly summed up in State 
>Department Policy Planning Study 23, issued in 1948. George Kennan wrote:
>
>         'The U.S. has about 50 percent of the world's wealth but only 6.3 
>percent of its
>          population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of 
>envy and resentment.
>          Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of 
>relationships which will
>          permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive 
>detriment to our
>          national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all 
>sentimentality and day-
>          dreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated 
>everywhere on our
>          immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that 
>we can afford
>          the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to 
>talk about such
>          vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of 
>living standards and democrat-
>          ization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal 
>in straight power
>          concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, 
>the better.')
>
>    "This should be no surprise,or rather, the only surprise should be that 
>it was admitted so straight-
>    forwardly. Much recent sophistry to the contrary, empires are always 
>about extraction of wealth
>    from the provinces for the benefit of the center, without regard to the 
>rights of the subject
>    peoples. They may not benefit all social strata in the imperial 
>nation---in fact, some of the lower
>    classes have to fight and die to maintain the empire---but they always 
>do benefit an elite. In
>    most cases, the wealth is spread around, both among some broad strata 
>of the imperial center,
>    and among a native elite in the provinces, in both to preserve 
>political stability." pgs. 102-103
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>
>    The George Kennan quote referred to above was made by a Democrat 
>(himself) during a  Dem-
>     ocratic administration. Going forward from there, or if one wishes 
>to.....to backtrack to the very
>     beginnings of the Democratic Party, one can discover what a shell game 
>the whole tragic farce
>     of the so-called "two-party system" has been. Roosevelt, the wiliest 
>fox of the bunch, might not
>     only be the savior of the Democrats, but of the whole sorry system! 
>But if anyone would like to
>     discuss or dispute any of this on these lists.....by all means let us 
>do so...............Cordially,Green
>     Gene (a friend of Red Emma)
>
>     P.S. The American Labor movement (the backbone of the Dems can't bear 
>too much scrutiny
>            either).
>
>Anyone wishing to discuss these matters further can reach me via e-mail but 
>preferably by phone. My number is: 972-398-0050
>
>I have posted this edited thought provoker 4 times previously without much 
>response. Everybody happy with the system?  Yours in real solidarity, Left 
>Anarchosyndicalist Gene (a friend of Red Emma)
>
>P.P.S.  And now we have the  PDA (ha)!
>
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