{"id":458,"date":"2004-04-21T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=458"},"modified":"2004-04-21T22:17:16","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T02:17:16","slug":"why-would-i-vote-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Why would I vote for that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to excerpt something from Stephen Gowans&#8217; latest and relate it to the comments exchange following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressaction.com\/pablog\/archives\/001645.html#001645\">this article<\/a> by Mark Hand.  I notice Gowans&#8217; entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressaction.com\/pablog\/archives\/001657.html#001657\">has now been posted there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read, read.  Head over there right now.  I upset someone by saying I feel betrayed when influential intellectuals like Howard Zinn tell people to go on and vote for John Kerry.  If you feel the same I&#8217;d ask you to consider this bit from Gowans&#8217; article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s not as if the alternative is saying anything to make you believe he would be better. Let&#8217;s run down the list of things Kerry thinks are pretty cool. Targeted assassinations. Israeli ethnic cleansing. Denying Palestinians a right to return to their homes. The building of illegal settlements in occupied territory. Territorial expansion through military conquest. A bigger army. Military supremacy. The unilateral use of force. The pre-emptive use of force. The continued occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The bold, muscular exercise of US power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would I vote for that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to excerpt something from Stephen Gowans&#8217; latest and relate it to the comments exchange following this article by Mark Hand. I notice Gowans&#8217; entire article has now been posted there. Read, read. Head over there right now. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-7o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}