If you are in the 99.9-percent of the population, the big issues will be the economy and above all jobs.
However, if you are in the ruling class, you are going to try and get everybody else to focus on abortion or gay marriage or immigration or the mommy wars or some other peripheral or downright stupid issue to take people's minds off of the wholesale looting of the United States:
The same political forces that hailed the election of Obama are seeking once again to dragoon the working class and young people behind the Democratic Party. The mouthpieces of American liberalism, from the New York Times to the Nation magazine, present this government, guilty of mass murder internationally and the gutting of democratic rights at home, as the “progressive” alternative to the reactionary policies of the Republican right.
These backers of Obama are joined by pseudo-left groups, such as the International Socialist Organization, which support the Democrats by lauding trade union officials who are raising hundreds of millions of dollars to reelect Obama and by promoting black Democratic Party politicians like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Representing privileged layers of the upper-middle-class, these organizations support Obama and the Democrats because they support their anti-working class and militarist policies.
The liberal and pseudo-left groups that advocate a vote for Obama in order to prevent the “disaster” of a Romney administration deserve only contempt. The truth is that whether Obama or Romney wins the presidential election, the next administration will preside over the most right-wing policies in the history of the United States.
No matter who gets in, it will be business as usual.
There is this cartoon which could have been redrawn the other way for all we know or care:
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