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A.R. G wrote
Without weighing in on the merits of voting for neocon Clinton, I don't
think that is the gist of the argument. The argument is not that she
is the
lesser evil. It is that she is *considerably less evil* than her
opponent.
The argument is that Donald Trump is far, far worse than Clinton, as
opposed to say, Romney and Obama or McCain and Obama. In those
years, many
on the left foolishly backed Obama at the expense of building any
kind of
counterhegemonic pole by exaggerating the differences between Obama
and his
opponent.
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Let's say we pretend for a moment. Let's say we're the egregiously
over-paid freaks in the capital grounds who for years have honed their
wits doing the deep thinking about these things. They might say, well,
we think they're getting on to us. It's all becoming so transparent that
even kids in the playground are on to it. We need a REAL obfuscation
this time. We once had the Hollywood second-rate movie actor who though
past it and well on the way to terminal Alzheimers could still peddle
crap like he did for General Electric tv ads and on the silver screen
for eight years, about welfare queens, the war on drugs and supply side
economics; we have had aw shucks drawling Bill and welfare as we know
it, NAFTA, the ending of fig-leaf banking regulation and the blue dress
for eight years; we've had the snuggle bunny, befuddled George W. Bush,
'Homeland Security,' gutting the Bill of Rights, 'mission accomplished',
failed states and concealed body counts for another eight years; we've
had a black dude who was the perfect foil for another eight years, the
first 'person of color' and Harvard Law Review editor and social worker
with the comely family and no political tracks behind him who from the
time he came out of the band box has been entirely in our side pocket,
could be counted on to continue where Bush and Cheny left off, and left
the voters misty-eyed - - so that we could lie and cheat and steal the
be jabbers out of the big fat sovereign entity enchilada US treasury
from one friggin eight year stint to the next - and counting? NOW what
do we do? Why, of course, the 'You're fired' guy on tv, he has said for
years that he wanted to be president. Let's put him up against the Hill,
fill his tender ego so full it spews from his mouth like three-day old
vomit, Hillary, the first woman president, although there have been 58
female leaders of their nations elsewhere and no big deal by now, will
surely beat the side-show joker and give us as her track record
incontrovertibly demonstrates everything we want and more, all the way
back to the White House laughing off the 'but-wait-a-minute,'
incredulous, gulled voter. And we'll leave all those poor, deluded slobs
wringing their hands, as they do every four years, over this yet even
more impossible contest between the two most despised of two 'lesser
evils', and pondering with great heaves and hos of thought over how they
will use their vote, which is virtually the only remaining, pitifully
small vestige of what may have once been slightly more credibly called a
'democracy,' and which in better times to come if we squint enough at
the distant imponderables might be defined at a minimum as controlling
one's own destiny, more accurately as moving ever closer to substantive
equality And so we'll 9the WE that counts, that is, continue our journey
with our paymasters and if we hedge our bets right, us, with still
impossibly more of the swag. Of course.
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