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The Kucinich Vote Is Principled

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To his credit, Dennis Kucinich will be voting for health care reform.   This had led to some grimly predictable concern trolling from conservatives who have discovered their admiration for Kucinich’s integrity just in time to repudiate it.

The argument, at least to the extent that one thinks that politics is about accomplishing something rather than onanistic gestures, is of course wrong.   When one is a legislator, principles have to be applied to the evaluation of alternatives that are almost certainly imperfect.   With something like health care reform — unless one believes in a “heighten the contradictions” scenario that given the political context would be implausible in the extreme and hence grossly irresponsible — the relevant question is whether, according to one’s principles, the legislation under consideration improves the status quo or not.   Believing that it does is perfectly consistent with Kucinich’s principles — and indeed, I have yet to hear anything resembling a decent argument to the contrary.    And if that’s case, voting yes is perfectly principled, even if you would make much more radical changes if you had the power.

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