In a message dated 12/15/0 7:16:17 PM, epm2@lehigh.edu writes: << Cmon, Stew, let's not get carried away with the metaphors. If coup has meaning here, it might come close to the two-party 'coup' to narrow the scope of electoral politics (or the Dem. Leadership Conference's 'coup' to move the party to the corporate center)... >> Some of you guys are so confirmed in your leftism that you can't tell the difference between a distorted democracy but still one where the real winner gets to serve and a stolen election where the loser wins. Forget about Gore and Bush and think of all the workers, women, Blacks and Jews who either voted for the Democrat or tried to - and then think of their votes, as being over ruled by five right-wingers on the Supreme Court. Indeed this election ended in a coup! Think of all the contempt for the people and for democracy involved in that Supreme Court ruling. And you will have to admit the process of screwing democracy has reached a new and more dangerous stage. And let me make another Chilean comparison. When I was in Chile nobody I spoke with predicted the Pinochet coup. Yes, the Communists and the Socialists thought there would be a coup but they believed in would be a gentleman's coup with no bloodshed --"We have democratic traditions in Chile." . As for the Santiago anarchists - they figured that Allende was the authoritarian and what could be worse than his semi-Stalinism? Some of these people wound up dead. Alas! Let us not be so dreamlike. Stew http://www.hometown.aol.com/stewa/stew.html
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