> > > when a party has no principles but the superiority of compromise, what > does it have at all? > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > Forwarded this email? 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On the presidential > line I will be voting for Jill Stein, not out of any particular regard for > Stein at all but as a protest against a system that gives me a choice > between a far-right party that constantly pulls the country to the right > and a center-right party that constantly allows the country to be pulled to > the right. I am a leftist; the Democrats are a relentlessly anti-left > party. They are allergic to attempting to reorient the country in a more > leftward direction, and so constitutionally timid and self-loathing that > they wouldn’t try even if they wanted to. In democracy you vote for the > parties and candidates that represent your interests. The Democrats never > have. No matter what the “blue no matter who” crowd says, it is always the > job of candidates and parties to earn votes, to deserve them. That I’m > expected to vote for politicians who don’t represent my values is a symptom > of the fundamental brokenness of our country. Well, as I’m in a position > where my vote makes no difference, at least I can vote in protest of a > country with two right-wing parties and no other options. > > Upgrade to paid > <https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9mcmVkZGllZGVib2VyLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9zdWJzY3JpYmU_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.E6w5m6klN23ZLr_hT8cGBxwofg8DqeGy8QYDApTsPCE?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=subscribe-widget&utm_content=151115302> > > I will be voting the Green Party line because there’s no better place to > put my vote, and it makes no difference anyway. They don’t really bother to > poll Connecticut because our electoral votes are about as safe, for the > Democrats, as those of any state in the country. The only poll I can find > shows Kamala Harris up 16 points, and honestly I would be surprised if it > was ultimately that close. (Registered Democrats are currently doubling up > registered Republicans here in early voting, I believe.) Were that not the > case, were I voting in a swing state, I would hold my nose and vote for > Harris and feel bad about doing so and never suppose that I was engaged in > some heroic act of political maturity. Democrats always want you to do the > opposite, to make compromise everything and feel proud of doing so, to act > like compromising yourself and voting for clearly terrible candidates is > the height of personal nobility. This is another core reason why Democrats > always lose out of proportion with the fundamentals, because they would > rather nobly hand victory to Republicans than to fight. No conservative > Republican ever patted themselves on the back for compromising and voting > for a politician who doesn’t reflect their values; the dedication to losing > by winning is a purely Democratic fixation. Democrats sacrifice everything > to appear to be the reasonable party while Republicans ruthlessly pursue > their agenda. That’s why American domestic policy is to the right of where > it was when I was born in 1981. > > Consider, if you will, the “left” champion in the Democratic party, > Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A congresswoman who has accomplished little > <https://substack.com/redirect/e57eb10b-018a-488a-8b1e-41ee0a718587?j=eyJ1IjoiNXhtbHAifQ.R1YcVQNhkQdWm14ytR2s81Lf8_szzf_-JAe9jnEZEgc> > even by the standards of the average member of the House, she’s spent the > last weeks running up to the election by relentlessly attacking Stein, who > functions as a proxy for people to the left of AOC and the Democrats. That > is what this young liberal lion of the Democratic party is doing in the > last days before we go to the voting booths, in an election where she calls > the Republican candidate a fascist: enforcing the anti-left consensus > within the Democratic party. That’s what she thinks is the most important > thing to do, as we face down another Donald Trump victory. That’s how she > thinks her time can best be spent. And, to be fair, it probably is the most > effective use of her time in a self-interested sense. She clearly has > designs on continuing to move up in the Democratic House pecking order, and > in the Democratic party the only way to move up - the only way - is to move > up by moving right. And she’s nothing if not ambitious. > > I defy you to find a Republican politician who’s spending the last week > leading up to the election by going after the Libertarian Party candidate. > I defy you. Because Republicans don’t punch right. > > Anyway. Bill Clinton. > > Like I said, I’m a leftist. Here’s the book on Bill Clinton: Clinton is > and has always been a conservative. He’s not *like* a conservative or > conservative for a Democrat, but rather simply a conservative, not a > conservative merely in contrast with Bernie Sanders or anybody else but > just a conservative. He was a right-wing governor and a right-wing > president and since leaving office he’s been a right-wing figure within the > Democratic party. There is no equivalent in the GOP, none, nothing remotely > like it. (The Republicans didn’t elect Lincoln Chafee president and then > run him out there as a core spokesperson for the party for decades after.) > Clinton presided over the most significant ideological change in one of the > two major parties in modern history, and that change was to drag the > Democrats (even further) to the right. He said that “the era of Big > Government is over,” which was one signpost in his broad effort to make it > okay for Democrats to abandon compassion as a policy goal, to leave behind > the very groups they supposedly spoke for. He made cruelty and callousness > political virtues within the party. By his 1996 presidential election > campaign, Bob Dole had taken to calling him “Mr. Me Too” (lol) to express > his frustration that Clinton had stolen his agenda. And that wasn’t > hyperbole; Dole’s tax-cut gimmickry was necessary because there simply was > no policy space between them for him to run on. Why bother to have two > parties at all? Tongue-clucking Democrats love to scold people who equate > the two parties, but by the end of Clinton’s administration there was > nothing to distinguish the two. That’s why his ample personal flaws took > center stage. What else would the GOP attack? > > Clinton had, after all, dismantled the modern welfare system, leaving > millions totally bereft of basic economic security and tripling extreme > poverty among Black Americans. He had codified discrimination against gay > servicemembers with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a policy that had no reason to > exist and which was entirely under his control as commander in chief. He > would then go on to sign the Defense of Marriage Act, which criminalized > gay marriage, an act that he called one of the proudest of his political > life. He championed a Democratic “law & order” politics; the federal > criminal justice bills he signed contributed significantly to mass > incarceration and the drug war, but more to the point his stewardship of > the party led to a raft of state-level bills that truly exploded our > incarcerated population, particularly our population of incarcerated men of > color. (Watch out for those superpredators, everybody.) He was the most > important supporter of NAFTA, an international trade agreement that proved > to be utterly disastrous for American industry, manufacturing, unions, and > workers without college degrees; all of this was predicted by the > agreement’s critics, but they were shouted down by Clinton and his team, > who had lied about their own analysis of what the impact of NAFTA would be. > He helped sharpen anti-immigrant rhetoric and pulled Democrats into the > business of demonizing the undocumented. Clinton presided over the bombing > of Iraq, which killed many, and intensified sanctions, which resulted in > hundreds of thousands of deaths through starvation. His supposed great > foreign policy victory in Kosovo, which the media praises to this day, was > in fact a horror show of reprisals > <https://substack.com/redirect/6ab719ae-af58-4ac0-96a5-efcc6ddcc5c7?j=eyJ1IjoiNXhtbHAifQ.R1YcVQNhkQdWm14ytR2s81Lf8_szzf_-JAe9jnEZEgc> > against the powerless civilians who were unlucky enough to represent the > “bad guys.” His economic advisors helped dismantle the regulatory systems > that would have prevented the financial crisis, and his administration > utterly failed to predict or prepare for 9/11. His ham-handed efforts at > instituting neoliberal healthcare reform poisoned the well of Democrat-led > reform so badly that a decade and a half later Barack Obama decided to ape > <https://substack.com/redirect/63172366-184b-42a0-9ef3-f5bcf64825fc?j=eyJ1IjoiNXhtbHAifQ.R1YcVQNhkQdWm14ytR2s81Lf8_szzf_-JAe9jnEZEgc> > a conservative Heritage Foundation-devised plan, so deeply constrained had > Democratic ambitions become. > > There’s also the fact that Bill Clinton is an accused serial sexual > predator. The man’s list of sexual assault and misconduct allegations has its > own Wikipedia page > <https://substack.com/redirect/7c8fd5b6-db4b-4619-b3c8-c0ac98d45984?j=eyJ1IjoiNXhtbHAifQ.R1YcVQNhkQdWm14ytR2s81Lf8_szzf_-JAe9jnEZEgc>, > which I find darkly comic. Going back to his days at Oxford, he’s been > accused of sexual crimes ranging from harassment to exposure to groping to > forcible rape. As President he met an unpaid 21-year old intern, a woman > less than half his age in an utterly vulnerable position, and proceeded to > engage in a sexual relationship with her. Anyone who knows anything about > basic sexual power dynamics could tell you that a woman in her position > could not freely and fairly consent and that it was, at the very least, > highly improper for a man in his position to engage in such an affair, > especially literally in the Oval Office. Clinton would lie about his > interactions with Lewinsky, under oath, in the process of defending himself > against a lawsuit concerning *another* act of sexual misconduct. In > response to the fallout, the Democratic messaging machine branded Lewinsky > a slut and a manipulator, which resulted in immense personal turmoil for > her. In an effort to distract the public from the scandal, Clinton > orchestrated the bombing and destruction of a Sudanese aspirin factory. > Clinton has been extensively linked to Jeffrey Epstein, who was infamous > for arranging for powerful men to engage in sexual acts with vulnerable and > exploited underage women. Democrat media has long represented any such > allegations as necessarily the work of partisan Republican conspiracy > mongering, despite the fact that Clinton has collected sexual misconduct > allegations his entire public life. > > He’s not a good guy. > > Here’s the punchline: were Bill Clinton on the ballot today, Democrats > would insist that I had to vote for him, to fundraise for him, to withhold > all criticism of him, and to do so with a smile on my face. They would say > that, since the alternative is Donald Trump, I have to grin and support a > man whose politics and policies are utterly contrary to my own and whose > personal conduct has been repetitively repellant. That’s the one principle > they believe in above all others, the absolute ethical superiority of moral > compromise. It’s an entire political party built on an addiction to > violating your own personal morals and ideals in the name of appearing to > be A Grown Up, a party of Jon Chaits who see no greater ethical purpose > than proving to everyone what a mature being you are by selling out your > most basic values. The Democrats have no way to get out of this; they have > elevated compromise to such an exalted place that the intelligentsia of the > party essentially defines seriousness as a willingness to compromise. When > the other party, in contrast, worships the refusal to compromise, what do > you think is going to happen over time, as each party wins and loses? When > a Clinton administration that’s defined by capitulation to conservatism is > followed by a Bush administration defined by relentless and unapologetic > dedication to conservatism, well, what do you expect? And yet if Bill > Clinton was the candidate on Tuesday I would be expected to vote for him > then, and if he was the candidate the next cycle I would be expected to > vote for him them, and again and again, as long as the party felt like it. > Against all of my values. > > If you think that the policies the Democrats ostensibly stand for are the > right policies, if you think they’re better and more compassionate, then > ending the Clintonite grip on the Democratic party should be a core > commitment of yours, even if your politics aren’t remotely as far left as > mine. The addiction to compromise, the relentless pushes to the right, the > timidity in the face of Republican boldness, the refusal to match the GOP’s > extremity - all of these are impediments to even a moderate, center-left > agenda. I’m sorry to constantly repeat this point, but politics is a game > of tug-of-war, and the center is nothing but where the middle of the rope > ends up. The extremes pull the middle. So if you’re someone with > milquetoast liberal squish politics, *you should hate Democratic > triangulation and timidity as much as I do. *Because Republicans > relentlessly pulling the rope to the right, while Democrats refuse to pull > the rope to the left, has gotten us to a place where conservative policy > wins even as conservative candidates lose. It’s simply untenable. This > policy of Democrats acting like they’re sorry for having an agenda at all, > building a party identity of self-loathing, has been the dominant one > during my lifetime, and it’s demonstrably a failure. The Republicans are a > despicable party, but they are a political party. The Democrats are an > anti-party. > > Much has been made of the fact that the death of Roe v Wade has powered > the Democratic party in the years since, getting out the vote, driving > fundraising. And I’m glad for all of that because I’m a reproductive rights > absolutist. But I do have to point out that the anti-abortion people did > what they’re supposed to: they used political victory to get what they > wanted substantively. It was the anti-abortion movement’s goal for decades, > elect Republicans who would nominate Supreme Court Justices who would > overturn Roe, which they did, with a big assist from Ruth Bader Ginsberg > and her refusal to retire during Obama’s term. The anti-abortion people had > a plan and unapologetically pursued it and, I’m sorry to say, succeeded in > that goal. That’s what you’re supposed to do! That’s what all of this is > supposed to be, the practice of politics to win electoral victories that > give you the power to bring the country more in line with your moral > values. You win political victories to make policy changes. You don’t win > political victories to win more political victories. I mean, what’s the > point? > > Beyond all of that, the Democratic hatred for voters of conscience is a > perversion of what politics is. I couldn’t vote for Bill Clinton because > his political values and policy preferences are totally contrary to mine, > and I couldn’t vote for him because he’s a person of terrible moral > character who should not be treated as a person of influence. It’s > astounding that the Democrats still trot him out as a voice of the party. > Of course, I don’t have to vote for Bill Clinton. I do however have to > confront a future in which the party that continues to treat Bill Clinton > as some sort of grand old wiseman decides who I get to vote for. And I will > have to continue to do what I’m always doing, which is to weigh the > constraints of my conscience against the short-term political realities and > make my best decision. But it *is *a decision, and sometimes I’m going to > choose something other than what the Democrats want. So will millions of > other people, no matter how many times Gail Collins throws a tantrum about > it. Democrats have elevated hating Stein voters, like Nader voters before > them, into a communal value that’s far more important than hating > Republicans. (Dick Cheney, welcome to The Resistance.) They never, ever ask > why exactly the Democrats and their candidates are so weak, so flagrantly > unpopular, that their elections could maybe sorta kinda be derailed by > Ralph Nader and Jill Stein. > > I guess all that I want is for the Democrats to ask themselves, do you > really want to be the party that’s opposed in principle to Americans voting > according to their moral values? And if the answer is yes, what exactly do > you think you’re getting in the bargain? 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