Who Do We Vote For This Time Around? A Letter from Michael Moore

The Iowa cau­cus is final­ly and mer­ci­ful­ly upon us. And right in time, film­mak­er Michael Moore has offered an analy­sis of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic field of can­di­dates. There’s much here that I don’t par­tic­u­lar­ly agree with here, but Moore makes two large claims that strike me as being fun­da­men­tal­ly (and regret­ful­ly) true:

  • The “Demo­c­ra­t­ic front-run­ners are a less-than-stel­lar group of can­di­dates, and … none of them are the slam dunk we wish they were.”
  • “For months I’ve been want­i­ng to ask the ques­tion, “Where are you, Al Gore?” You can only pol­ish that Oscar for so long. And the Nobel was decid­ed by Scan­di­na­vians! I don’t blame you for not want­i­ng to enter the viper pit again after you already won. But get­ting us to change out our incan­des­cent light bulbs for some irri­tat­ing flu­o­res­cent ones isn’t going to save the world. All it’s going to do is make us more agi­tat­ed and jumpy and feel­ing like once we get home we haven’t real­ly left the office.”

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  • Neant says:

    “But get­ting us to change out our incan­des­cent light bulbs for some irri­tat­ing flu­o­res­cent ones isn’t going to save the world.”

    This is the stuff that annoys me about Michael Moore. He weilds so much pow­er, that he often uses well, but at oth­er times he is inca­pable of curb­ing his arro­gance, of think­ing of the lit­tle things, of step­ping away from the grand ges­ture. A refusal to scru­ti­nise and change his own lifestyle under­mines his author­i­ty.

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