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Revisiting my earlier diary on "Lesser of Two Evils" voting

Nearly ten years ago I wrote a diary titled "Some thoughts on 'Lesser of Two Evils' voting," originally posted to DailyKos.com but preserved for posterity in a WordPress file at that point in 2016 at which DailyKos.com became an instrument of evil. In this piece, I hoped to revisit that diary and add some important reflections it left out.

Evil in the Age of Utopian Dreaming

Adolf Hitler had two utopian dreams, both of which were evil and both of which constituted the core of Hitler's political philosophy.

The first one, more familiar to today's masses, was Judenfrage, translated as the "Jewish Question." Hitler's answer to the "Jewish Question," initially, was to remove all Jews from Germany. Eventually this became kill them all.

American Ruling Class, Killing Children as "After Dinner Entertainment"

Evidently one of Trump's billionaire cabinet buddies, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, told an audience at an economic conference in California on Monday that the illegal missile strike in Syria was “after-dinner entertainment”.

His remark drew laughter from the audience.

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