Fact: If all the votes that went to Jill Stein in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania had gone to Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump would not be president now.
Nor would he be within striking distance of destroying The American Experiment. Nor would a large number of Americans, myself included, be pondering exile.
After representing Trump as the inept, malevolent, essentially destructive monster he is, she explains why she cannot vote for Biden either because Biden “may — or may not —“ be slipping into dementia.
Not only is this a ridiculous criterion (especially in light of its undocumented premise), it is also a fact that Ronald Reagan operated a very effective presidency even though we now know he was - as a matter of fact -- slipping deep into dementia during his second term in office.
But because Reagan was prepared to delegate authority to reasonably-competent underlings, he was able to get the job done through surrogates.
And although it’s a side point, we must move beyond the absurd idea that just one person is capable of handling the presidency.
In any event, the presidency is already a largely delegated function.
Happily, if ever there were a vice presidential candidate competent enough to take over the presidency, it’s Kamala Harris.
Some people argue that Harris' steely stance on religious incursions into political process is not just stern but oppressive.
Harris may be partially "guilty as charged."
But by my lights, the secular calculus that is foundational to American political process is immeasurably less dangerous than the theocratic impulse that leads white, "Christian" "conservatives" to trash democratic process, aided and abetted by the fascist authoritarian who befouls the nation, a "man" whose behaviors are deliberately, consistently and calculatedly cruel -- a man worshiped by delusional cultists, a nexus of people who are -- in every meaningful way -- anti-Christ.
"More Of Trump's Cruelty"
Trump And His "Conservative" "Christian" Cultists Deserve To Be Called Out For Their Anti-Christ Destructiveness
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-and-his-conservative-christian.html
Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/christianity-compendium-of-what-went.html
It is no secret that atheists often behave in ways that are more Christian than any generation of Pharisees, a "religious" demographic that is "always with us."
"The Number One Cause Of Atheism Is Christians," Catholic Theologian, Karl Rahner, SJ
Let us be crystal clear that Jesus reserved his most incendiary criticisms for Pharisees, a sect whose members were the upstanding, church-going people of his day.
Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"
The "Woe Passages" in which Jesus vituperates against the Pharisees include 2.86% of all words Yeshua himself spoke in all four Gospels.
The Pharisees Are Always With Us: Here's What They "Look Like" Today
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Jesus Rages Against The Hypocrisy Of Religious Leaders: "Woe To You Religious Leaders!"
Christians Ignore Jesus' "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Said
In a society most notable for ritual purity and correspondingly fixated on cleanliness, Jesus scorched the Pharisees by calling them "whitened tombs full of dead men's bones and rot."
Kamala Harris' corresponding criticism of purportedly "religious people" Does. Not. Come. Close.
But enough of Kamala. I hope she is our vice president in four months.
I also hold (as a self-evident truth) that the Democratic Party is smart enough and patriotic enough to invoke the 25th amendment if Biden were to become manifestly incompetent.
People who pretend that their vote “doesn’t matter anyway” are, by my lights, shirking the prime directive of all electoral politics which is to do your best to ensure that crazy people do not win elective office. (Christian theology, at least as it relates to the nature of God, focuses disproportionately on the "via negativa" which attempts to "reveal" the structure, if not the nature, of God, and undertakes that quest by describing what God IS NOT, NOT what GOD IS.
My approach to electoral politics is similar: above all keep people out of office who are crazily unfit. NEGATE THE CRAZIES.
Just that.
NEGATE THE CRAZIES.
I venture that people who do not understand (or accept) this prime directive are themselves crazy – at least insofar as sanity and lunacy relate to the duties of responsible citizens.
I know all the arguments by which many Americans cast their ballots in ways that promote the election of shitty, lunatic politicians.
And every one of these arguments impresses me as an identical twin to "Zeno's paradox," i.e., "We can prove that every projectile NEVER reaches its destination. After all, every projectile first travels half the remaining distance to its target, and then another half of the remaining distance etc. ad infinitum, thus demonstrating -- with mathematical precision! -- that no projectile EVER reaches its destination."
If this year’s contest, were Biden versus McCain, or Biden versus Romney, or Biden versus Kasich, or Biden versus Jeb Bush, I could see that there would be no real danger in using one’s franchise to express disgruntlement... or the workings of a scrupulous conscience... or even whimsicality.
But to behave in such fashion when “throwing one’s vote away” enhances the likelihood of electing a madman (with multiple, synergistically-interactive personality disorders) is as unhinged as Un-Potty-Trained-74-Year-Old himself.
To my mind, such irresponsibility reflects the Pavlovian conditioning of Reality TV and the eldritch belief that November’s election is no more than “voting someone off the island.”
Having said all that, “Why I Won’t Vote” is very well written and therefore doubly dangerous due to the seductiveness of its mistaken, gullible and clever rationales.
If this year’s contest, were Biden versus McCain, or Biden versus Romney, or Biden versus Kasich, or Biden versus Jeb Bush, I could see that there would be no real danger in using one’s franchise to express disgruntlement... or the workings of a scrupulous conscience... or even whimsicality.
But to behave in such fashion when “throwing one’s vote away” enhances the likelihood of electing a madman (with multiple, synergistically-interactive personality disorders) is as unhinged as Un-Potty-Trained-74-Year-Old himself.
To my mind, such irresponsibility reflects the Pavlovian conditioning of Reality TV and the eldritch belief that November’s election is no more than “voting someone off the island.”
Having said all that, “Why I Won’t Vote” is very well written and therefore doubly dangerous due to the seductiveness of its mistaken, gullible and clever rationales.
"Why I Won’t Vote"
If Trump wins, I reckon America will burn.
If Trump loses, America will burn
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