You may well be bored to death by my frequent posting of interviews with this man.

Why Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is NOT Voting for Trump or Kamala

But given the topic, and the fact that we are now within a month of the stupidest “most important election of our lifetime” of our lifetime, I thought it was worth posting one more, in order to say:

Professor Sachs is not some wild-eyed goon with an opinion and a tiktok account.

He has been very much a foreign policy Insider–for decades.

For that reason and others, many on the nominally liberal or progressive left don’t like or trust him. Not because he’s ‘turned into’ a moderate centrist tool of the state, you understand, but because in important ways he always was one, in spite of his fairly consistent dove-ish views on the question of war.

Either way. I believe he’s trying to be a good man and that he’s gotten better at being one over time. (I can relate.) More importantly … he knows a hell of a lot more about how the geopolitical world really works than you or I do, or ever will.

I’d have to dig to be sure, but I believe he voted for not only Obama but Biden too, in the spirit of that old-time lesser-evil religion.

The Dems have lost a lot of votes, among Arabs in Michigan, among black and latino and just young people everywhere, among old white men who bother to read carefully like he, and I–people sick of the bullshit and of the way They can always find an excuse for a war, and of perpetually living in an imperial war State … the routine banal human sacrifice that kills not only little brown kids over there, but all kinds of regular Americans one way and another right here.

And still, they say, it’s very close, “razor-thin margins in the swing states”, lord jesus.

Thus, apparently, things are going to be decided on the basis of issues that barely matter any more compared to that one: identity politics, culture war issues; whether to sacrifice Amendment One to our own fears of ‘misinformation’, whether to sacrifice Amendment Two to our half-rational fear of alienated outsiders living in this insanity being driven to mass shootings.

Amendment Four, of course, is long gone, and though it was deeply threatened under Bush Junior, it was our own dear Barry O who slit its throat for good.

And now we are treated to the horrifying yet predictable spectacle of Cheneys for the Kam, and everything old is new again.

I’m gonna miss that Bill of Rights thing. Nice while it lasted.

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If you don’t live in a swing state, vote your true conscience, or sit this one out because your vote doesn’t matter anyway.

Following Jeffrey’s example.

If you do live in a swing state, vote your true conscience because duopolist democracy has rigged the game to the point where ‘who wins’ matters only at the furthest and most symbolic margins, when and if it matters at all.

Following mine.

Going Stein.