{"id":383651,"date":"2018-11-04T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-debate-some-strategic-electoral-considerations\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T14:34:49","slug":"what-debate-some-strategic-electoral-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-debate-some-strategic-electoral-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"What Debate? Some Strategic Electoral Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Someone recently asked me my opinion on \u201cthe left debate over lesser evil voting\u201d this year. What debate? There\u2019s no debate. Anyone who doesn\u2019t understand that the creeping fascist white nationalist Republicans are more horrific than the dismal dollar Democrats in ways that matter enough to hold one\u2019s nose and vote \u201cfor\u201d the Dems in contested races this year is (sorry to say) hopelessly out of it.<\/p>\n<p>It was one thing to protest-vote for Jill Stein over hideous Hillary in a contested state when nearly every reputable pollster was predicting an easy victory for Mrs. Clinton. But then the caravan-barking freak got into the White House, turned what was already a dangerously arch-reactionary party into his own personal pre-fascist organization, and then worked with that party to advance a hard-right, ultra-plutocratic and eco-cidal agenda while spreading racist and nationalist hate and setting new world records for totalitarian, truth-canceling mendacity. Any lefty who doesn\u2019t grasp the desirability of the Republicans and their terrible tangerine master being checked to some degree in the House of Representatives is too stupid and\/or alienated for their own good.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a \u201cdebate\u201d over the advisability of walking barefoot on rusty nails?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Democrats are horrible. They make my skin crawl. I\u2019ve documented their record as a pack of \u201clying neoliberal warmongers\u201d for many years. But when the deplorable Dems embraced the full corporate neoliberal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/02\/what-debate-some-strategic-electoral-considerations\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked me my opinion on \u201cthe left debate over lesser evil voting\u201d this year. What debate? There\u2019s no debate. Anyone who doesn\u2019t understand that the creeping fascist white nationalist Republicans are more horrific than the dismal dollar Democrats in ways that matter enough to hold one\u2019s nose and vote \u201cfor\u201d the Dems in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}