Genocide is Never the Lesser of Two Evils

January 25, 2024 (Posted by) Don Pelton

I’ve been struggling with this, and I think Chris Hedges is right when he says that he is as afraid of Trump as anyone, but …

“Our revulsion for Donald Trump, the Biden White House believes, will impel us to keep Biden in office. On any other issue, this might be the case, but it cannot be the case with genocide. Genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. We cannot, no matter what the cost, support those who commit or are accomplices to genocide, even if it means we are forced to endure the dreaded return of Trump. Genocide is the crime of all crimes. It is the purest expression of evil. We must stand unequivocally with the Palestinians. We must demand justice. We must hold Biden accountable. If we do not, we join the long list of those who for expediency or because of indifference have sold out the Palestinians and sold out all of the oppressed.”

Hedges also said:

“Well, I think there has to be a line at which, and I am as terrified of a Trump presidency as probably many in this room, but there has to be a line that we draw that you can’t cross. And I think the problem is, especially with the Democratic Party, we have never put that line in place. And so what we’ve watched since the Clinton administration is the Democratic Party transform itself into the Republican Party and the Republican Party go so far to the right that it became insane. But the Democratic Party in Europe would be a right-wing party.”

The above quotes are from the following talk: