Cornel West Wants You to Thank Him for Losing Your Election

 

This frog will get as many electoral college votes as Cornel West.

Cornel West is the injured veteran who insists on playing and 'helping the team' even though he can barely walk -- and ends up causing the team to lose. And he wants you to thank him for it.

 CNN  — 7/21/2023 -- Headline:

Democratic worries bubble up over Cornel West’s Green Party run as Biden campaign takes hands-off approach

By Gregory Krieg, Eva McKend and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

Updated 2:47 PM EDT, Fri July 21, 2023

"Cornel West’s candidacy on the Green Party line confuses some of his longtime political allies and friends – while also alarming top Democrats and Black leaders as a potential ticking time bomb for President Joe Biden in next year’s election." 

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Cornel West knows you need 538 electoral votes to win. Cornel West knows he can't and won't actually win 538 electoral votes. He knows he will not pull away Republican voters and thereby help in close states. He knows he will pull from voters in close states who would otherwise vote Democratic. Cornel West knows that no third party candidate for president has ever won or even come remotely close to winning the U.S. presidency.

Cornel West knows that without a Justice Department willing to prosecute civil rights violations,. the laws become meaningless fig leaves. He knows that a Republican victory means the end of civil rights period -- no enforcement and the active stripping away of the underlying laws themselves.

If Cornel West is the razor-sharp intellect he is running as -- he would his candidacy cannot help its intended benefactors. It's like giving someone a boat with a hole in the bottom as a wedding present and then expecting to be thanked. 

West wishes to be honored and praised and for his Quixotic mission for the White House. But he is as confusing reckless stupidity with bravery. He is the delusionary soldier leaping out of the foxhole alone, getting quickly shot by the enemy, and revealing his company's secreted location.  

BUT WON'T HE GET PEOPLE TO VOTE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE NOT?

This is a provable falsity -- according to West's own campaign strategy. Any new voters which he pulls into the election will naturally vote for him. Except for a few states with ranked-choice voting in presidential elections, this means that the only candidate capable of keeping the Republicans from winning will not get any of the new votes and voters West attracts. This is the unifying falsity which defines all failed third party presidential candidacies coming from the Left. West's rebuttal is provably false (by factual data) and rationally disingenuous. On the negative effect of Ralph Nader on the 2000 election, West bluntly claims none of the Nader voters would have voted at all if not for Nader -- so they had no effect on Al Gore's numbers. But this argues too much. First, West can't prove (some Nader voters would have switched if Nader told them; but he didn't). Using West's own rationale, his candidacy in 2024 will at best be utterly meaningless. He drew in voters only to have them throw their votes completely away by voting for him, who has no stick of a chance of getting five electoral votes, never mind 538. 

Cornel West is a guy who can't swim who thinks he can do a better life-saving job than the life guard simply because he cares more. So the kid drowns. And he wants you to thank him for it. 

All Left-oriented 3rd Party candidates always promise to tell their supporters to switch to the leading candidate if the polls show them with no chance actually winning (or getting a single electoral vote). Then they always refuse. This is because 3rd party candidates are always liars. 3rd Party candidates cannot and will not ever accept culpability for their obstinacy and its consequences on the real people who now have to suffer under a truly hostile government-in-power. 

Nor does West seem to be aware that this Republican Party is more hostile to black Americans than any since the Reconstruction. Or that this Republican Party has plainly stated its intention to make black Americans as legally powerless as before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. None of these existential facts seem to faze West -- it is if he is still living in 1980 and the Republican Party was that led by Gerald Ford. This a problem with Old Lefties.Their lifetimes of past experience turn into millstones in the present. 

It's one thing for one old man to launch one more Quixotic Mission to redeem the defeats of his past. But that's a personal thing. If you personal validation, go climb K-2. At least it will only be your body on the crags of the summit. But don't invite the whole country along and kill them as well. That is just selfish.

Like RFK Jr.. West seems driven by internal demons unique to men who realize this is their last shot -- at anything 'big.' This is Cornel West at the bar with Dylan Thomas, draining pints and rage, raging against the dying of the light, forgetting the world goes on after them, and they are really only rueing the dying of their own light.

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Old Farm Shed near Wilson Pond, North Monmouth, Maine.

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RFK Jr., CNN and Click-Bait Coddling

This rock has a better chance of winning than RFK Jr.

 

 

 Jay Michaelson, a rabbi, writes in a 7/20/2023 CNN opinion piece:

 "Whereas, Kennedy Jr. is the epitome of the ‘useful idiot.’ Heavily funded by right-wing donors, he is proving to be an early headache for President Joe Biden, who is now forced into a no-win decision between debating him and allowing his dangerous nonsense to go unchecked." 

RFK Jr. is no 'early headache' for Biden. He is a useful contrast for Biden. The more RFK Jr. self-implodes, the more Biden looks like the only sane adult in the room.

CNN and others continue to paint RFK Jr. as a serious presidential candidate even as the facts in their own reporting lay out his own lurching, calamitous self-immolation. CNN has a fiduciary interest in allowing RFK Jr. to be 'considered' a serious candidate (by whom?; for what?) solely because RFK Jr. will generate clicks -- but only if he remains considered (by CNN) to still be a 'serious' challenger who 'worries Democrats.'

Who are all these 'worried Democrats' ? How come CNN can't find one and interview them? Are they also 'worried' about talking to CNN? How worried can a Democrat be?

This is the oldest and sleaziest news trick in the book. You invent a premise from whole cloth claim that it 'worries' some unknown but apparently audible 'Democrats' If the worries are audible, where is the audio? Where's the interview? Where's the transcript? 

The provable fact that the Koch brothers are funding RFK Jr. and the fact that he is not flatly rejecting their 'help' should be the second sentence in any CNN story about RFK Jr. He is the first-ever Democratic primary hopeful directly funded and cheered on by the opposing party and vocally hated by his own party. Or, as Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on July 20, RFK Jr. is a “a living, breathing, false flag operation.” 

This non sequitur is not just insane -- it's highly germane.

CLICKS RULE -- FACTS DROOL

For CNN, keeping RFK Jr. in the news queue and portal page generates far more clicks than that guy from North Dakota. Without RFK Jr. there is no named challenger to Biden and therefore, no upcoming Democratic presidential contest of any type. Bored now. So can't we prop up the squeaky bat a bit longer?