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"... to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But... there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now.... You are being asked to dismantle... a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children?..."
"There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they‘ tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead."
"No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul."
"No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul." -
In 2024, 2.15 million more votes for the USA woman candidate than in 2016. But 10 million more votes for the obnoxious guy in 2024 than in 2016? It.must be a view of obnoxious(understatement!) Policies....
> It was a turnout election in which Harris–who performed only a little better than HRC in 16–gave Democratic voters little reason to turnout–other than fear of Trump, who they’d already endured and (mostly) survived.
2016
HRC 65.85 million
Trump 62.9 million
2024
Trump 72.7 million
Harris 68 million
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/the-crack-up/
#USPol #HarrisAndTrump #HarrisAndHRC #HRC #HRCAndHarris #JeffreyStClair -
Yes, hindsight is 40/40 but these guys (like Arun Gupta) for some time have been warning of snatching a loss with the jaws of absurdity (mis-quoting "Snacthing defeat from the jaws of victory" here and that's mis-quote of "Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat" and we should be making policy not getting stuck in spectator sport roles...) It just seems important to see that the results may not be a sign of brilliance in campaign PR of outright malevolence in millions... Check out Arun Gupta on the immigrants, woman, and black guy he talked to at the Madison rally...
Like Hubert Humphrey, Harris was saddled with an unpopular war (a war & a genocide in her case) that her own boss was waging. Humphrey tried to break from LBJ on Vietnam but too late. Harris never did.
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Harris had very different policies when she ran against him in 2016, maybe she should’ve stuck with a few of them, instead of saying stuff like her beliefs haven’t changed but her position on fracking/national health care/the border/ have….
#^https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/06/chronicle-of-a-defeat-foretold/
#USPol #DefeatForetold #JeffreyStClair #CounterPunch