Two of my favorite political people, natural allies in any rational world, went head to head and were not very good to each other.

First Thoughts on CONTENTIOUS Jimmy Dore Cornel West Interview

Those first thoughts are provided by the Due Dissidence guys.

My own: Jimmy’s insistence on Covid and Mandates being the One Big Issue came off as kinda dumb, in spite of his attempt to drag things like censorship and income inequality under that single big tent. It IS the One Big Issue on the Jimmy Dore Show, but TJDS is not the world.

On the other hand, DD’s Dobular made a really great point.

There is one half-ass reason left for voting for Democrats, and the reason is: Not Trump Not Trump Not Trump. It’s a shitty reason. It’s an insufficient reason. And if you try to use it to vote for Biden or Newsome or the Blue-du-Jour in 2024, you’re rationalizing, possibly brainwashed, and not smart. I can say that because I was exactly that kind of not-smart in 2020, so please don’t hit me with the umbrage stick, even under your breath.

The problem is that Cornel West still thinks that Trump is worse, and a “fascist”, as if we hadn’t been marinating in real fascism for decades, as if white supremacy were something invented by the Donald instead of advocated tacitly by our beloved Founding Fathers a few hundred years back.

Ask the Sioux.

The logic of this is that if West drops out for some reason, and his thinking doesn’t change, he will probably be forced by intellectual honesty to become just another BlueNoMatterWho drone, the November after next, and just as with Bernie, anyone hoping for real change will just have to suck it up.

Dear Cornel.

Brother Biden is not the lesser of evils. He’s the strawberry evil, and Trump is vanilla and that’s pretty much the end of it.

Incrementalism will change nothing.

We don’t have time for this shit.

Live free or die; nothing personal.

Love,

V.

PS: Here’s one more recent DD clip featuring the brainless stylings of one Kyle Kulinski, on what amounts to the very same West question.

PPS: Lots of clips of the actual interview, and analysis from a low-budget working class perspective, on Hard Lens Media here.