On “Stay Free with Russell Brand,” the eponymous host was abundantly clear over which presidential candidate would be the most authentic protector of democracy.
The actor/comedian said:
“In a straight choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, if you care about democracy, if you care about freedom, I don’t know how you could do anything other than vote for Donald Trump for precisely the reasons that they claim that you can’t.”
He added that:
“They act as if a vote for Donald Trump is almost like you’re directly voting for Armageddon, like you see hysterical performances outside of courtrooms, endless MSNBC bombast. But I’m starting to think that no, a greater threat to democracy is this kind of technological feudalism, that tells you that it cares about you and that it’s protecting vulnerable people, all the while increasing censorship, increasing the funding of wars, increasing the division between ordinary Americans.”
Mr. Brand has become one of my few fellow social-progressive centrists who sees (and speaks out against) the trick behind the twisted formula of promoting agendas by saying they’re validated by their laudable-sounding stated goals.
An agenda is never validated by its stated goals because that’s the job of the agenda – to validate itself by showing how it would deliver said goal. It doesn’t get to hide behind the very goal in whose name it has been proffered.
Otherwise, any bad-faith schmuck or imbecilic organization could get away with any assinine agenda he (or it) wants to promote simply by saying ‘But it’s in the name of this laudable-sounding goal.’
We need to stop the political class from using this destructive device in any of our national debates.
