MI VOLAS HALTIGI DE ELEKTI !

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"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic." --Gore Vidal

My first day back to the NYC commute after spending a week in Santa Cruz serving as MC for One Dance: The People's Summit was something out of a hackneyed Hollywood script. As I tried to enter the N Train, hordes of passengers were de-boarding. Being five stops away from Manhattan, I knew those folks were not really getting off the train. That's when the savvy commuter glances into the train for a look and immediately notices a homeless man sleeping in the corner. I didn't even have to enter the car to fill in the blanks. The homeless man must have been, uh, malodorous. I dashed to the next car (with everyone else) and crammed myself in...surrounded by New Yorkers puffed up to double their normal size in winter gear. Standing close enough to my fellow plebeians to smell the bad breath, the toxic perfumes, and the embedded stench of cigarettes, I tried to think about California and One Dance (http://www.onedancesummit.org).

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IN MY neighborhood, the Mission, many tenants, working people, desperate housing activists and even a few self-styled anarchists are elated by Tom Ammiano's surprisingly strong showing in the Nov. 2 election.

Ammiano's popularity is clearly a function of The City's catastrophic housing crisis. When compared to Downtown Willie Brown, Ammiano appears to be a pro-tenant candidate and a friend of working people. Ammiano has even pledged that as mayor he'll declare an all-out war against gentrification, which is destroying the unique character of this city.

By all accounts Ammiano is a decent human being, especially when compared to the other mayoral candidates in the November election. He is also an excellent stand-up comedian.

But working and poor people who trust Ammiano in particular and electoral politics in general operate under a staggering number of illusions. As a Democratic Party politician, Ammiano is not an ally of working and poor people.

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about "http://blog.jeveuxarreterdevoter.in..." from Kevin Doyle.

A spectre (to paraphrase Karl Marx) was haunting the ruling class of most European countries in the aftermath of the French revolution in 1798. That spectre was democracy. The "problem with democracy" was that if it was conceded then the ordinary poor people, being much more numerous than their rulers, would surely swamp them.

-> http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/b...
While historically anarchists assiduously avoided any involvement with electoral politics, in more recent times, at least in the united states, some anarchists have advocated voting. The arguments these voting anarchists put forward are generally the same as those put forward by other leftists who are unable or unwilling to completely sever their connection to the political process. They argue that voting for their candidate, usually described as a lesser evil and usually (if not always) a Democrat, is necessary to prevent united states aggression against some favored revolutionary state (like sandinista nicaragua), is some sort of self-defense against the more conservative candidate, or is merely better than "apathy," as some describe abstention from voting. While one could argue against voting simply because it rarely, if ever, accomplishes any of the goals its advocates claim it can, there is a more fundamental reason for anarchists to oppose voting: voting in government elections is an inherently authoritarian activity, and authoritarian means never yield libertarian results.