"IT'S HOPELESS BUT VOTE ANYWAY!?"

[redstar2000]

Argentine bishops try to legitimize forthcoming national elections...

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina...?idContent=8148 (http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=8148)

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[Pete]

This is like hwo the antiwar protesters in Egypt say "We will not stop anything, but we will protest anyways"

[Larissa]

"Irrational as always". That seems to be our motto. The worst problem we are facing is the fact that the upper class will vote for López Murphy, the brainless class will vote Menem again, and the rest will vote Kirchner hopefully (IMO the best option, a leftist peronist). Yet, we are scared to death that Menem will manage to win again.

I'm trying to gather the left-wing parties all together in an almost impossible task. So far, all of them still come up with the same lousy shitty arguments they've always presented.

The "intellectual" socialists don't agree with the Communist party (too "conservative" and outdated in their opinion). Troskytes are like a curse, the pickets have two different "gangs" that oppose each other, like the PC, also divided into two branches, and there are too many different types of "socialist" parties quarrelying among themselves as usual.

So, from our left side, no candidate will ever get a vote. Thus, I regret to say that this elections will be of no use really, like the bishops say. *Maybe when I get to become "Comrade grannie" I will be able to see a true leftist candidate elected representing a united left and not all the circus we have today.

No need to say how many bad words I receive every day from my "comrades" (in Argentina).

[mentalbunny]

What does it mean to be a "peronist"? I always thought that Peron was a "baddie" but I may be wrong.

[Larissa]

Well, peronists are Peron followers, although many of them like Menem never followed Peron's political policies.

Now, Perón and peronism is a very difficult thing to explain. Even the brightest political analysts are still trying to understand, but let's say that basically he was a nationalist.

He was a right-wing Military who carried out a socialist policy in his governments...weird, uh?

For instance, he nationalized foreign oil companies like Esso and Shell, but at the same time allowed nazis to enter and hide in our country as refugees.

[Subcomandante Marcos]

let me just start saying...DEMOCRACY IS A BIG LIE !! (just like catholics)

there is no such thing as democracy, maybe in the greece and rarely in some countries. But mostly is a big ugly lie for a few people to get their hands on our money

It basically works like an article, the one with the best advertisment wins, even if they are such psychos as Bush is. People are tricked to vote for someone they dont even know just because they see a bunch of posters in walls or on TV. Most of the time the candidates bring people from other parts and make them vote for them or just manipulate the votes

I lost confidence on democracy a long time ago and is going to take a huge effort to bring it back to what it was intended to be once