MIM NOTES No. 196        October 15, 1999	

Labor aristocracy in good mood, disses establishment

Recently Time Magazine has been polling and a European soccer 
player (Ronnie O'Brien, not even the recognized Brazilian great 
Pele) was winning "Person of the Century" ahead of U.$. President 
John F. Kennedy and Mother Theresa. This reflects the jovial mood 
of the labor aristocracy that can sometimes lead into anarchism of 
the 1968 type in France.

Similarly, World Wrestling Federation star and body-builder Jesse 
Ventura won the governor's race against respected establishment 
politicians in the Democratic and Republican parties of Minnesota. 
Picking a soccer player or a pseudo-wrestler as a leader is the 
labor aristocracy's way of making a point about politics -- that 
any joker or idiot with character outside of the political system 
would do a better job.

What the labor aristocracy does not notice is that the system can 
afford being "dissed" this way. Electing idiots and jokers does 
not change anything. The Italians elect a stripper to Parliament 
who has a hands-on campaign in the nude. Amerikans elect a B-grade 
actor named Reagan and then have a Vice President Quayle. It is 
not enough to put "an outsider" into the system. There must be a 
plan to change the system itself, so that politicians themselves 
and the sources and causes of their corruption are eliminated.

Note: To see the Time Magazine polling, http://www.pathfinder.com 
/time/time100/poc/century.html and read the chat groups.