Reply #16: Wha!?...............................................

[BJ]

Of course, you're right. The election of Arnold Schwarzenegger has little to do with idology or idealism and everything to do with manipulation of maudlin symbolism and corporationism.

He was elected in part because Californians, like the rest of us, are shackled to our automobiles. His election was a reputiation of two unpopular car oriented measures enacted under Gray Davis:an increase in vehicle taxes and allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's lincenses.

Now Schwarenegger's biggest goal, besides "balancing the Kaly-vorh-nyh budge-it," is the total deregulation of the state's electricity industry.

That's not pragmatism. That's cynical political manipulation to advance the corporationist grip on this country.