Why the Lesser-Evil Argument for Biden Sounds Hollow

It is evident that neither candidate is actually going to do anything substantive to save us from ecological catastrophe, writes Jonathan Cook.

[consortiumnews.com]

{Their approach towards younger voters on the left who are not immediately impressed by this logic has often been to shame and insult them, labelling them as selfish, ideological purists or exemplars of white privilege. They have also indulged in what looks to many younger voters suspiciously like emotional blackmail, comparing Trump to Mussolini or Hitler.}

In other words. They have committed themselves to the very same ritual that once was mostly that of the republican supporter, conditioned onto them from their side of the MSCM and politicians programed agenda. An apparent loss of intellectual discussion built on logical analysis of the real issues. This program having started in the Reagan era has now engulfed essentially the entire voting construct. What it has accomplished is cognitive dissonance towards more logical views of alternative thought towards a real sense of change as capitalism has ran its course and the younger generations look forward to escape from.

The one view I don't quite agree with Cook on in which I began to recognized in 2016, while I'll admit it is still a bit lopsided. Along with the growing support for them from the senior citizens of the elder generations who no longer recognize or view the country for what they believed it to be. Only those entrapped in the perception management of the MSCM can be found to keep supporting this corrupt voting process as they refuse to seek or even accept genuine alternative sources of information. {The system is entirely owned and controlled by a plutocratic class, addicted to the expansion of its own wealth, even at the cost of our species’ survival.}

{Meanwhile, the two candidates on offer in this election are probably the most deficient and incompetent in U.S. history: one is a fire-breathing, posturing, delusional narcissist; the other the dried-out husk of a once smooth-talking, delusional narcissist. Each is proof that the evil system they are there to obscure has grown so sclerotic, so debased, that it can no longer produce credible salesmen.}

If you don't understand that, you shouldn't be voting! You simply have no clue to either candidates entire history to form a logical opinion on. If you do understand that and vote for either one of these people, you're a hypocrite and compliant to a system that you're not a part of, but a slave to.

{The candidates’ qualities aside, the system sinks into ever greater depravity for reasons that seem obvious to the younger left: because the power-establishment knows that, however evil the two candidates on offer are, as long as one is ever so slightly less evil than the other it will be able to adduce mock-ethical arguments to strong-arm the left into legitimizing its evil system. To younger voters, when the left’s veterans make the lesser evil argument, they repeat precisely the arguments the evil system wants echoing. It is not a great look.}

In other words. He is referring to the very agenda of this group. [agnostic.com]

{The power-establishment knows that it can drag the system towards greater evil – towards more corporate greed, towards more horrifying global wars, towards more planetary destruction – and still the left will be expected to consent to the system as long as one candidate is slightly less evil. All the system has to do is offer a candidate who can market him or herself as less evil than the other candidate.

What the lesser-evil argument has achieved over the past 40 years – entirely predictably – is the gradual shift in the center of political gravity ever further rightwards, towards unconcealed rule by the corporate class, towards Donald Trump.}

!And more American citizens killed by law enforcement! While the fascist elements continue to go unabated and gain strength. An issue I have been speaking out about since our government, both republican and democrat, supporting a fascist government in Ukraine. In which those elements from Ukraine have been a wide source of communication, training, and support of fascist here in the US. [thegrayzone.com]

{But rather than seize this historic moment, the older left – including, tragically, Sanders himself – are using this period primarily to undermine the progressive left, by bullying them into submission to the Biden campaign whatever it decides to do.}

In other words. As a heart breaking moment for me as I advocated for this con artist in 2016, Sanders has exposed himself as nothing more than a siphoning apparatus for the establishment and ruling class along with the DSA who support him and his ilk like the squad.

[socialequality.com]