{"id":381718,"date":"2018-10-20T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-the-democratic-party-cant-be-saved\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:50:10","slug":"why-the-democratic-party-cant-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-the-democratic-party-cant-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Democratic Party Can\u2019t Be Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThere are two issues. One is a kind of moral issue: do you vote against the greater evil if you don\u2019t happen to like the other candidate? The answer to that is yes. If you have any moral understanding, you want to keep the greater evil out.\u00a0Second is a factual question: how do Trump and Clinton compare? I think they\u2019re very different. I didn\u2019t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump\u2019s on every issue I can think of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Noam Chomsky<\/p>\n

\u201cIf not me, who? If not now, when?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Emma Watson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ok, yes, the second quote was originally from Hillel the Elder, but Watson made it famous and will factor in later.<\/p>\n

First to Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is too smart to ever lie. But maybe just a little too smart to have hope. Regardless, he is one of the great figures of our lifetimes.<\/p>\n

Evaluating Chomsky\u2019s opinions on lesser evil voting is difficult because he seems to be right on just about everything else. I am not one of the people on the left who sees no difference between the two parties. Trump is especially bad. The difference between the two parties is obviously great enough where one would be right to commit their night to keeping the Republicans out, no matter how much one might disagree with the Democrats.<\/p>\n

The act of voting is not always that easy in our so-called democracy however. Greg Palast has been keeping track of the recent voter purges in the United States. Things were especially bleak in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo Source Justin Herald | CC BY 2.0 \u201cThere are two issues. One is a kind of moral issue: do you vote against the greater evil if you don\u2019t happen to like the other candidate? The answer to that is yes. If you have any moral understanding, you want to keep the greater evil out.\u00a0Second […]<\/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-381718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}