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UNITED NATIONS -- 11 November 2004 / www.MaximsNews.com / And not just in elections. You can disrespect big money all you like, but its holders are not irrational. They definitely believe in Darwinian survival of the fittest for a start – and for them the dollar is looking more than a little dinosaurish since the re-election of the President. Lots of people across the world demanded with varying degrees of facetiousness, the right to vote for the leader of the self-appointed world-ruling nation. Most were unsuccessful. But one select group of foreigners does have the privilege of a vote on the vote – bankers. The reaction of international money markets to George Bush’s reelection has been to push the dollar lower against the Euro than it has ever been. This
is entirely rational. The continuing prospects
for high oil prices, not least in view of
Bush’s crusade against the religion of most of
the people sitting on the stuff, but also
because of a complete failure to slow down Then there are clear signs that the Chinese and the Japanese are becoming unhappy at investing their surpluses in a depreciating currency and in buying bonds from a US Treasury that shows every sign of thinking that money does not grow on trees, but that it is trees – once they’ve been pulped and made into paper. Promises of a more tax cuts for billionaires, bigger deficits and a raid on the Social Security leaving a huge contribution shortfall, all suggest that the bell tolls for the greenback. In most countries of the world, such an impending slide of the national currency, and the reasons for it, would be headline news. But while occasionally, the size of the budget deficit may have oozed oleaginously onto some subsection of the front pages, the trade deficit stayed resolutely buried in the back pages. And
of course, while discussing numbers, the tales
of creative electoral practices from In
the old days, the Dixiecrat specialty was
keeping the votes down, while the Northern
Democrats, in good Tammany Hall fashion, would
wait until the results were coming in for a
burst of Stakhanovite psephological productivity
in places like As old Joe Kennedy allegedly said of his JFK’s victory, “I paid for a victory, not a landslide.” Of course it is not yet totally proven, but there are substantial grounds for suspecting that the modern GOP has creatively synthesized both the old Northern and Southern Democrat traditions by keeping away voters, while adding votes. One almost has to admire the GOP’s capacity to learn from experience – at least on this level. They may well have prayed fervently, but they did not rely on miracles. They made them happen. For
example, not since the miracle of the loaves and
fishes has there been such a miracle as the Even Tammany Hall knew there were limits to such creativity. If the dead voted, at least Boss Tweed made sure they had been decently registered first before their Lazarus-like hobble to the ballot boxes. But
the state of Then there are the numerous places where the exit polls showed a marginal Kerry victory, but the electronic votes showed the reverse, conjuring up votes out of airy nothingness. But the real miracle is not the imaginary voters, nor even the disappeared ones. It is the voters who consciously voted for George Bush even though their views on many issues were far to the left of his and Kerry’s. Not only were many of those “Red” states only marginally pro-Bush in their votes, public opinion polls suggest that a clear majority in many of them was against the President’s actual policies. Already
mentioned is This type of miracle takes two ingredients. On the one hand, the success of George W. Bush in obscuring his agenda, and Kerry’s success in having an obscured agenda to begin with. While
last week, we had a little fun and suggested
seceding from the New Confederacy, joining When the Republicans have been in a minority, they have been a determined, bloody minded and ruthless opposition. The Democrats have always been too ready to wreck themselves to the Siren Call of unrequited bipartisanship. Damn bipartisanship. In Karl Rove’s lexicon it means persuading the deer to vote to extend the hunting season. In effect, the Democrats should have a de facto primary now. Appoint a leader of the opposition – and oppose. Abandon DLC style triangulation and oppose any idea that Bush has a mandate. Oppose packing the judicial bench with Neanderthalers: oppose escalating defense expenditures, oppose looting the Social Security System; oppose starting more wars against more places: oppose tax breaks for billionaires. And explain to people why it is against the country’s traditions to let the poor, sick and weak fall by the wayside, why it is criminal to let minds go to waste while the mindless waste the country. These are moral values that people can respond to. But keep the Canadian immigration papers valid just in case. And buy Euros anyway. New: Write a Letter to the Editor!! www.MaximsNews.com/LetterstoEditor !!!
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