Louis Proyect

The "Centrists" keep trying to co-opt progressives

Submitted by arendt on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 10:50pm

There is a war raging inside and outside the Democratic Party. The war's origins go back to the beginning of the Clinton Era in 1992, when corporatists took over the party machinery and began excluding (and then demonizing) the progressive wing of the party, when irredeemable neoliberal assholes like Rahm Emmanuel became the public face of the Democratic Party. But, it was the 2016 campaign that put this civil war on the front pages.

Another Essay on the Dilemmas of Lesser-Evil Voting

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 07/16/2016 - 7:52pm

The list I created of Important dates in history for lesser-of-two-evils voters was meant largely as an effort to name the lesser evil as an evil consequence of lesser-of-two-evils voting. I've noted that all efforts to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton as a "lesser-of-two-evils" candidate fail to give a thorough examination of the evil of the candidate they're promoting.