John Wilson,. . .your post requires a response from the reality-based community. The old banality, "don't vote, that'll show 'em" rings especially hollow now.
After the fiasco, which -- thanks to lock-step GOP sedition, thuggery and obstructionism -- is still unfolding, of the Bush-Cheney administration, it is a mystery how anyone can still say that both US political parties are the same.
Your claim that Clinton (conservative Democrat, in my view) and Trump (outright Fascist in reality) are in any way equivalent is plainly wrong. Wrong in fact and wrong morally.
Study well the history of the leftists who in early 1930's Germany thought and knew for sure that the rise of the Nazi Party would necessarily prove the bankruptcy of the right and usher in left wing victory. In 2000 we had liberal candidates saying pretty much the same thing, that a vote for the guy who'd do the most damage would demonstrate the need for the sanity of the left. How'd that one go?
In case you're not aware, we are further in the hole of corruption, militarism and climate destruction than ever with an even more insatiable right clawing down every bit of decency, sense and intelligence in sight.
Politics is the art of the possible. So, we have to deal with what is possible now, in this moment; in a country where it seems that 40% of the voting population supports the Fascist Trump.
As a lifelong pragmatic Democrat, I've had to live with a lot of disappointment. Yet it is vital to realize that untold further damage will be done by any Republican who is running for President in the foreseeable future.
Any vote not for the Democratic candidate is self-defeating and destructive of the future.
John Wilson,. . .your post requires a response from the reality-based community. The old banality, "don't vote, that'll show 'em" rings especially hollow now.
After the fiasco, which -- thanks to lock-step GOP sedition, thuggery and obstructionism -- is still unfolding, of the Bush-Cheney administration, it is a mystery how anyone can still say that both US political parties are the same.
Your claim that Clinton (conservative Democrat, in my view) and Trump (outright Fascist in reality) are in any way equivalent is plainly wrong. Wrong in fact and wrong morally.
Study well the history of the leftists who in early 1930's Germany thought and knew for sure that the rise of the Nazi Party would necessarily prove the bankruptcy of the right and usher in left wing victory. In 2000 we had liberal candidates saying pretty much the same thing, that a vote for the guy who'd do the most damage would demonstrate the need for the sanity of the left. How'd that one go?
In case you're not aware, we are further in the hole of corruption, militarism and climate destruction than ever with an even more insatiable right clawing down every bit of decency, sense and intelligence in sight.
Politics is the art of the possible. So, we have to deal with what is possible now, in this moment; in a country where it seems that 40% of the voting population supports the Fascist Trump.
As a lifelong pragmatic Democrat, I've had to live with a lot of disappointment. Yet it is vital to realize that untold further damage will be done by any Republican who is running for President in the foreseeable future.
Any vote not for the Democratic candidate is self-defeating and destructive of the future.
Thanks for a good essay.
The GOP seems to have made their plan pretty clear by now. You can't build a right wing police state without the subjugation of women.