Reply #38: Getting small... [View All]

[Dirk39]

I really doubt that the small difference between Kerry and Bush, if there is any differance, is significant. But I'm not an American, and I'm even not as intelligent as Noam Chomsky, who seems to think that there is a small differance, that counts.

My general attitude is: we have to find a way to talk to the people and engage the people, who don't talk anymore and who don't move or vote anymore.
Maybe even those people, who don't vote anymore, "know" more than we, wasting our energies, trying to convince ourselves that Kerry against Bush or Blair against Thatcher or Schroeder aganst Kohl is an alternative.

In a way, the former socialist or social-democratic parties in Europe, at least in Germany and Great Britain, are ahead of America this time: they are worse than the conservative parties were before and they are used to silence any kind of resistance. But we here in Europe still have unions and millions of people on the streets against them.

Just think of Iraq: an illegal occupation of a foreingn nation and the only difference between Killer-Kerry and Coward-Bush is that Kerry wants to send 40.000 soldiers more to Iraq. I just hope 40 years from now, the democrats in the USA don't have a candidate, who's claiming to have killed at least 40 Iraquis in 2005, while his republican counterpart was just sitting on his desk.

Dirk