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Those Rats Won’t Fuck Themselves!

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This was overdetermined:

What’s particularly revealing about this, of course, is that Stein is on Trump’s personal propaganda network shilling for someone who is actually the walking caricature of neoliberalism — offering empty platitudes about diversity while advocating for the economic interests of the most wealthy people in society and cuts to critical social programs — that she spent 2016 lying about Hillary Clinton being:

These are remarkable exchanges. Schultz refused to say whether he thinks the notion that massive high-end tax cuts pay for themselves has been discredited — which is particularly indefensible given the soaring deficits after the Trump tax cuts. Nor would Schultz say whether paying down the deficit by raising taxes on the wealthy is more economically legitimate. And he refused to answer whether under his vision, the wealthy would pay more.

Yet in the very next breath, Schultz also attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) new proposal for a wealth tax — on household wealth over $50 million — as “ridiculous” and “punitive” and “not something that’s ever going to be passed.” As Paul Krugman points out, whether or not one supports Warren’s proposal, it’s notable that tax experts are taking it seriously, because it treats extreme wealth concentration at the very top, revenue shortfalls (and their resulting social ills), and extreme inequality as legitimately profound challenges that require progressive tax reform ambitious enough to match the scale of those problems.

But there’s not any real contradiction here. Stein has no signature issue, and does absolutely nothing to advance any kind of left political vision; she wants to throw elections to Republicans and that’s all she wants to do. She represents the vanity wank candidate in its purest form. Even Ralph Nader might as well fold up his bottomless narcissism and go home.

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