I won't even accuse you of "lesser-evilism". That's a convenient shorthand, and Bruce Dixon's "more effective evil" is the best version of it, but "evil" is a theological, anti-political word I prefer to avoid. Voting for Biden or Trump or neither will not rank someone on some linear scale of "evil".
These are all tactical choices in a corrupt electoral system that makes an unambiguously "good" choice impossible, and makes whom you vote for not terribly important. A venal sin, at worst.
Nor, however, do I accept that anyone in the must-vote-for-Biden camp, Bernie Sanders included, is in any high moral and political position to denounce my "irresponsibility" if I refuse to vote as they think I should.
Bernie and Noam and The Nation's SDS-ers are making different political judgments than I about how Hitlerian Donald Trump is, how democracy-saving Joe Biden is, and how catastrophic the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties is--judgments that flow from different ways of understanding of state-party-class relations in the U.S., not from a moral fault or lack of responsibility.
I do not accept the substitution of unpolitical lesser-evilism with absolute evilism, which is exactly what the invocation of Hitler is. It's not I who is demanding purity; it's they who are assuming it.
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