OTHER: GONG, politicos, new $100

[M Holmes]

Rudich, Robert A writes:

> They are supposed to play Boston the day before this and I'll be taping, so
> I hope it's true.   Maybe I'll even try yelling for "New Jerusalem."

If you get a live tape of NJ then I'm definately up for trading. I'm
still trying to get a tape of Blake's solo spot at the London reunion gig.

> There is a guy on the Vermont and Wisc. ballots for the presidential
> election by the name Rev. Bud Green (AFAIK) (check it out, BP).  He wants to
> get herb legalized.  Might be as worthwhile a vote as Libertarian.   Both
> will have the same impact in our hard core 2 party system.

The point of having the Libs is less to win than to get enough votes to
persuade the other parties that there might be votes to be had in
adopting some Lib policies.

IMHO the Libs cannot win in the US without a fundamental realignment in
politics there. OTOH this is about due. The way it could happen is that
the Economic Conservatives finally split from the Religious Reich in the
Republican Party and align with the Libs who share their belief in
Fiscal prudence and at least have some alignment on the personal civil
liberties side of things. That in turn might drag in some of the left
who strongly support the Lib stand on personal civil liberties and would
go along with more fiscal prudence.

Interestingly the recent large studies of British youth show them to be
economically conservative and very insistent on personal civil
liberties. Our middle party, the Liberal Democrats, are basically
watered down socialists and so we seem to have a small "l" libertarian
generation who are politically disenfranchised. That's certainly
reflected in the voting record of the under 35's.

> Got an advance look at the new US $100 bill today.  Quite interesting
> design.

ObIlluminati: Does it have the Eye-In-The-Pyramid?


> Rudy


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