{"id":2138,"date":"2021-02-26T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2021-02-26T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:27:36","slug":"voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2021\/02\/26\/voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I told myself: Cornell West is right. I have to vote for Joe because I am, for once, in a swing state.<\/p>\n

That was true, and I did what I had to do. Still and always, I will regret the necessity, and all future necessities that might involve voting for any Dempublican whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Here’s why<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A long month into office, Biden is now officially a war criminal just like Daddy Barack. <\/p>\n

For that reason and many others, Liberalism is dead to me. But of course it’s not really liberalism, or even neo-liberalism exactly, that is the real problem. <\/p>\n

It’s oligarchy. It’s the influence of corporate money from Raytheon and Pfizer and Google flowing through and suffusing political power and policy. It’s the military-industrial-pharmaceutical-technocratic complex. <\/p>\n

It’s capitalism. <\/p>\n

The Communist tells us<\/a> it’s the same in Canada. Yes, there’s a bit of an ironical feel to the complaints of someone living in a better country, with universal health care and a temporary UBI in place during the pandemic, lodging the same complaints. But with the necessary change in perspective, he’s right anyway, <\/p>\n

Wrap it all up this way in less time than it takes to listen to a pop song. Richard Medhurst is a Syrian living in the UK. Hear him<\/a>. Hear him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I told myself: Cornell West is right. I have to vote for Joe because I am, for once, in a swing state. That was true, and I did what I had to do. Still and always, I will regret the necessity, and all future necessities that might involve voting for any Dempublican whatsoever. Here’s why. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}