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I recently found a website that combines Slashdot on the left side of the screen and Digg on the right side of the screen. I don’t like the layout and will probaly never use it but I wanted to share it with you.
And if you are visiting from Digg and wondering why I didn’t just link you straight to the website, well, I couldn’t. Apparently at Digg “Items pointing to digg.com are not allowed” to be submitted as stories. Since it would poing to slashdigg.com it must not allow it. Oh well.
Finally. I’m not being bombarded by political ads on TV anymore. But one only has to wait until 2008 for it too all start up again.
The Democrats consider this latest election to be a victory, but it’s still not a victory for the working class.
There is at least one piece of good news though, voter turn out was under 50% for registered voters. People are becoming more and more disillusioned with the political process. Now they just need to see revolution as the answer. *sigh* At least the smoke and mirrors of the spectacle of bourgeois democracy is over, for a little while.
Think of an interrogation cell where there are two cops, one playing Mr. Hard and one playing Mr. Soft. Mr. Hard comes in and roughs you up a little, yells at you, insists you’re guilty, threatens to prosecute you to the fullest extent, etc. You don’t admit to anything and Mr Hard leaves. Then another cop comes in playing Mr. Soft. He’s nice to you, speaks to you on your level. He tells you he’s fighting for truth and justice. You get comfortable with him because he sympathizes with you. He says if you tell the truth then he will take it easy on you and not let Mr. Hard get his way with you.
In bourgeois democracies the political roles of Mr. Hard and Mr. Soft and played by the parties of the right and left, respectively. The role of the interrogatee is played by the working-class. The worse the right behaves, the more attractive the left looks to the working class. This illusion is as dangerous in politics as it is in a police cell. When things get out of hand and provoke rebellion the democratic part will save capitalism by pretending to be socialist.
America is a country ruled by one party with two different factions, both pretending to represent different demographics, but in reality they are both serving the interests of the ruling class. In the end you will get fucked by both parties. Supporting either of them is a huge mistake.
