Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: Carrying [sic] Ron Carey's Jockstrap



Lou P (who, presumably, is no psychologist) tells us: 


>There is what psychologists would call some sort of cognitive dissonance
>between our perceptions of the Teamsters Union and the Peru Communist
>Party. Where Louis G. sees grovelling before Ron Carey, we see mass
>solidarity and self-confidence on the part of the working class on a level
>not seen in years. He is ashamed of and embarrassed by the Teamsters union
>and thinks the working class would be better off without it. What we need,
>on the other hand, is an American version of Gonzalo's party.


No, Lou, I didn't say that the American working class would be better off
without the Teamsters union, just that they would be happier (and a damn
sight more secure) without Ron Carey and his too numerous imitators in the
AFL-CIO.  The two are not the same thing.  As I pointed out in my little
essay, there were and are depressing similarities between the adulation
shown Diana by ordinary people and the ease with which Carey & Co. was able
to sucker the rank-and-file into his little misadventure which,
incidentally, is already bearing ill-fruit for thousands of UPS drivers.
Diana, I can almost understand.  We have not been walking upright all that
long, and she *did* have a sort of royal panache that when presented by an
obliging media, seemed to transcend the vulgarity of our everyday existence.
Her every touch appeared to exude an ethereal selflessness and flawless
abnegation.  

What can one say about Carey?  Each rank feature of his ugly, graceless
existence seems to invite comparison with the worst of the American
character (which he so shamelessly celebrated).  Grasping, opportunistic, a
double-dealer who truly made a pact with the devil to ensconce himself in a
lifetime sinecure of privilege and graft, Carey embodies well the values of
that gaggle of mercenary, bribed low-lifes that hold reins over at the
AFL-CIO.  Their tawdry patriotism and appeals to a past long gone rings as
hollow as their insincerity.  What excuse do the workers have for bowing
down to the likes of them?  Are we not men and women?  The world has gone on
to better things.

Thank goodness.


Louis Godena

  



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