we the lesser weeble

i really like mike whitney ...a lot
we've corresponded :
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/05/no-more-years/

but ....read this


"If  you were asked to choose between candidate Hitler or candidate Mussolini ....
 the right choice would be to abstain entirely expressing your view that the balloting was nothing but a wretched farce"
 yup

". Isn’t that what we should be doing now, denouncing the process by refusing to participate in these faux elections?"

nope

 because ...well we aren't choosing between two brands of fascism

this is not one of  " these faux elections"


 mike goes on to aknowledge the first part himself:

" Obama is not Hitler and Romney is not Mussolini "

and as to the second part
  despite barry's "... horrendous record on civil liberties"
 we here in the metropole are exceptional enough
 to still live inside  a set of  bourgeois liberal instititutions
with all that doesn't entail


. " A vote for Obama means that one tacitly accepts
 that personal freedom and human rights can be arbitrarily suspended
by the executive and that the state can grab you, throw your ass in prison,
 torture or even kill you without due process, without charging you with a crime,
 without a jury of your peers, without probable cause.."

yup it indeed does if the administration sticks to well certified evil  marginals
and keeps the numbers down

but listen

to me a signifigant difference in  the role of uncle
 in labor relations alone is sufficient
to get out and make a barry win
one vote more likely...... in a purple state


more generally
              going to the polls in north america is always worth it

even if its a single ballot question at the state level that might make a difference
some thing on the ballot makes it "worth it "

and on the gaseous level

going to the polls registers your participation in a  democratic celebration
shoddy as it may be

is it in the final analysis
just  a secular analogue to  baptism or extreme unction  ?

of course it is

 most of the time
            for most of the weebles
but not all of the time for any of the weebles