Truest statement of the week

Sanders raises all kinds of interesting populist issues in his speeches, but he is seeking the nomination of a party that is the proven enemy of the working class and he has promised, citing the lesser-evil doctrine, that he will endorse the Democratic nominee whoever it happens to be. So we can see that progressives like Kaufman and Sanders are not really opposed to standing on principle. It’s just that they have replaced the principles of working class solidarity and telling the truth with the “principle” of lesser-evil politics. This approach has persisted for decades while the labor movement has suffered blow after blow. Borrowing from Sara[h] Palin we have to ask, “How’s that lesser-evily thing working for ya?”



-- Bruce Lesnick, "Sanders and Lesser-Evilism: Is There No Line You Will Not Cross?" (CounterPunch).