Comrade from Boston

[Comrade Corinna]

hi my name is Corinna, I am 19 and I am verrryyy left politically, and my parents were both Republican!

[The Z-Man]

Hi, I'm from the Boston area too! My parents are also republicans and I'm left-ish ( I do have some conservative values though, but thats a different story). Where are you from more specifiacally? I'm 16 and from around Lawrence. Welcome comrade!

[Organic Revolution]

welcome, have a good time, and dance!

[JC1]

US Republican or Irish Republican ? :P

[Comrade Corinna]

I am from the Cambridge area in Boston, a die hard Red Sox fan, but now I am going to school at NYU, and if you know anything about the Red Sox, you would know that is hard! but of course I know a lot about being the rebel one-

both of my parents were Republicans (and to the person who asked Irish- No, I mean real Bush-loving American Republicans! Im not even Irish I'm half Puerto Rican and half Romanian yeah my dad is a latino Republican =/)
They tried to bring me up as a little conservative bi-otch like my sister but no way that didnt work! That all changed when I passed an 8th grade education, lmao.

I have a question- since you all seem to be far left, as in left of your run of the mill Democrat, who did you vote for last year? I voted for Kerry, as voting for any third-party candidate would (and did) take votes away from the Democratic candidate and increase the chances of the Idiot winning (and did)

[Le People]

I'm not old enough to vote, but I was rooting for Kerry. He's liberal, which I take any day compared to a facist. Anways, my mom's from Massacuhetsas (the west side of the state) and her parents are die hard Republicans. She's now a Liberal with communist sympahtsis, kind of like me, but I'm Age of Enlightenment orinntied. More Left wing though. A latino republican. I call that being anal screwed!

[enigma2517]

Neither

Voting only makes the current system look legitimate.

I'm pretty skeptical of voting, just to start off with that. You have your pick of rulers. Get screwed or get screwed more. Kerry or Bush. Pretty sad eh?

However, I can understand that "liberal" reforms (if they ever even happen, which many of them don't) can ease the pain of capitalism, so to speak. As crappy as the social services they offer are, it could be worse, I'll admit.

Regardless of all of this, voting only furthers the facade. Active resistance to the despotism of capital is (or should be) your primary goal!

If you had a tick on you, but at the same time a man was also stabbing you, which would you take care of first? See my point?

The material conditions of the world right now are heading towards, although most likely not ready, for revolution. Is that to say, without all out revolution you can't accomplish something or take it a step further. No, definetely not. BUT I can still see how voting MIGHT be a concern to you there somewhere.

So here's my advice. If you have to vote, vote. But don't encourage others to vote (i.e. campaign) and when you vote yourself, do it in the most antagonistic, apathetic way possible. You're not doing this for a brighter future, you're doing it so you don't get screwed even harder. Something like that should your tone.

But I could be wrong. You tell me.

[The Z-Man]

Ah Cambridge is very nice.

GO RED SOX!!!

Unfortuanatly they lost tonite so now they must win or Clevland must loose for them to make the playoffs.

I'm far left so I'm a run of the mill democrat?! I hate the democrats more than I hate the republicans, although I hate the republocrat althogether. You should know how bad kerry is...and kennedy!!! Gah Mass. is so badly democrat. The reason I hate democrats so much is that they are hypocrites more than the republicans. But thats another story.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Originally posted by Socialist [email protected] 2 2005, 01:28 AM
I am from the Cambridge area in Boston, a die hard Red Sox fan, but now I am going to school at NYU, and if you know anything about the Red Sox, you would know that is hard! but of course I know a lot about being the rebel one-

both of my parents were Republicans (and to the person who asked Irish- No, I mean real Bush-loving American Republicans! Im not even Irish I'm half Puerto Rican and half Romanian yeah my dad is a latino Republican =/)
They tried to bring me up as a little conservative bi-otch like my sister but no way that didnt work! That all changed when I passed an 8th grade education, lmao.

I have a question- since you all seem to be far left, as in left of your run of the mill Democrat, who did you vote for last year? I voted for Kerry, as voting for any third-party candidate would (and did) take votes away from the Democratic candidate and increase the chances of the Idiot winning (and did)
I voted for Nader. I do not agree with him politically on many issues but I feel supporting him was the right thing for a socialist in a non-revolutionary time to do. As far as taking votes from Kerry, well he didn't really do that in any way that added to Kerry's loss and even if he did, I would still support it.

Why vote for Kerry? He is as pro-war as Bush and ran to the right of Bush on many things. Democrats are a party of war as much as the Republicans and, worse, they drag progressives into supporting US wars instead of taking an independant stance against the war. THe Democrats are cooperators with the Republicans, not an opposition to the republicans. Clinton got rid of welfare when the "republican revolution" couldn't get away with it and Clinton invaded more countries than Bush has. The only benifit that a Kerry win would have had was disillusioning progressives from the Democrats when he inevitably would have continued this war.

As for voting for Nader, it is basically because he is a prominaent opposition figure to both the Democrats and Republicans. Just think, if more people had supported him and helped him get into the debates, what kind of dynamic election politics would have taken on: instead of two corporate politicians debating the right way to "win the war" you would have had Bush and Kerry defending the war against another candidate who would be making the anti-war argument. This would have helped the anti-war movement. Instead, you had the anti-war movement telling people to support Kusinich who said he would bring "the anti-war message to the Democratic convention" but ened up coming to the convention and staying silent and telling his supporters to support the pro-war Kerry.

Yeah, Kerry was slightly more liberal than Bush, but does that really matter if you're an Iraqi and he's dropping bombs on your head? Weather they are coming from the left or right of US imperialism, that bomb is the same.

[Sabocat]

Holy shit, another comrade from Boston. I used to live in Boston, but now live just north in Salem.

You're a Sox fan in NY, I'm a Yankees fan in New England....I feel your pain. :lol:

Welcome to the board.

[Comrade Corinna]

I voted for Kerry because I hate Bush. That is all

What drives me insane is when uneducated Republicans say crap like "John Kerry/Hillary Clinton/insert Democrat's name here etc is a Communist!" They really dont know what they are talking about

[bolshevik butcher]

It's because being a communist has a lot of stigma attatched to it, especially in yankee land.

[Amusing Scrotum]

Welcome Socialist Corinna.


What drives me insane is when uneducated Republicans say crap like "John Kerry/Hillary Clinton/insert Democrat's name here etc is a Communist!" They really dont know what they are talking about

There are some educated right wingers in the OI, who call Bush a Socialist. I really can't decide whether I want to laugh at them or to throttle them. :(


my dad is a latino Republican

Oh dear.

[workersunity]

Welcome Comrade, post Much and prosper

I am also very left, and my parents are republicans

[Comrade Corinna]

Yeah I know, Latino Republican! Aaah!

My mother, at least I can understand. She came over from Romania during the Ceausescu era- that guy gives Communism a bad name- that wasnt Communism, that was Bullshit.

[Reds]

My father voted for nixon so i think he is a republican of corse he is from east tenneesse so that might expain that oh and welcome comrade.

[Gura]

It seems there are a lot from Boston. I'm from Cambridge.

[coda]

Use to hang in boston alot when my sister was at North Eastern Univeristy.

Loooove Boston & Cambridge. Best city on the East Coast!