-----Original Message----- From: pen-l at mail.csuchico.edu [mailto:pen-l at mail.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 3:21 PM To: pen-l at mail.csuchico.edu Subject: Re: [pen-l] Fw: [ei] Green Party filing for recount
Ugh. Why on earth are the Greens trying to pull the Dems' chestnuts out of the fire for them? Sounds like they've been spooked into lesserevillism by all the liberal-schmiberal geschrei und gevalt. Disappointing.
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It was of course _inevitable_ that at some point the Republicans would win election again. That was/is the huge hole in the thought of "lesser evil" devotees: even when they "won," they were merely contributing to the victory of a worse "worse evil"! And in this election it was not even clear which candidate was the "lesser evil."
Speculation: Liberal Panic during this campaign has its foundation in the widespread identification of _any_ sort of authoritarianism with "fascism." And this would generate blindness to _other_ forms of the "police state." I've mentioned before that the requirement of ID for travel was a _serious_ loss of freedom -- and yet few of those terrified of Trump show any appreciation of the significant limitation of freedom from the 1970s on: War on Drugs; Prison System; NAFTA; control over border crossings with Mexico & Canada. These, not Trump, are the threats to "bourgeois democracy" that should be terrifying us.
Carrol