"'I lose no opportunity publicly' to identify Biden as a tool of Wall Street, .. someone who's launched an unconstitutional war' 'Would you call that support?'
"'I don't 'support Biden.' I oppose the current Republican Party.'"
Ellsberg acknowledges that "the differences between the major parties are not nearly as large as they and their candidates claim", let alone what we would want: "It's even fair to use Gore Vidal's metaphor that they [the Democrats and Republicans] form two wings ('two right wings,' as some have put it) of a single party, the Property or Plutocracy Party."
And my friend Tom Gallagher wrote a forthrightly-titled article: "Vote for the War Criminal - It's Important!" He acknowledges that it's "fair" to say their "military policies would ultimately turn out to be essentially the same", and asks, pointedly: "So if we were to consider Biden as he really is, that is, among other things, a war criminal, how can we even vote for him, much less argue that it's important to do so?"
For both of them, of course, the answer to that question was that Trump would be worse, at least on domestic policy. As Gallagher says "on domestic policies there are clear opportunities" for making a choice. Per Ellsberg, Trump would be "much worse, even catastrophically worse, on a number of other important issues": Supreme Court appointments, the economy, women's reproductive rights, health coverage, safety net, climate change, green energy, the environment" than Biden. [Ellsberg's italics]
Oops, those Ellsberg and Gallagher quotes are from articles they wrote in 2012 about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I changed the names to highlight the point: No matter who the candidates of the two parties are, and no matter how bad the Democrat is, the Republican is always "catastrophically worse"--mainly because of alleged differences on domestic policy. And the person insisting on the catastrophic necessity to vote for the acknowledged criminal Democrat always assures us that, as a real critical leftist, s/he will absolutely, positively, pinky swear, continue, as Ellsberg promised, to "lose no opportunity publicly" to identify [Tweedledee Democrat] as a tool of Wall Street", war criminal, etc.
I'm not sure about Ellsberg, but Gallagher takes the same position about Biden today. And if Obama is a war criminal and tool of Wall Street!--Well, Biden has quite a list of items despite which it's important to vote for him.
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