Volunteer Exemption?

When I heard that the Labour Party had sent 100 people to campaign for Kamala Harris, then my reaction was twofold. First, if those same individuals, and the ones who were sending and funding them, had campaigned for Labour in 2017, then it would probably have won. And secondly, how delusional. The grating poshness would be lost on most people in North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania or Virginia, but the extreme youth would not be, and the sheer foreignness would be immediately obvious. Yet these insolent children just assumed that their intervention would be decisive. There is no one more laughable than those who have been told from the cradle how clever they were.

Although equal hilarity results from assertions such as, "The far-left Labour Party has inspired Kamala's dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric." Since Susie Wiles presumably aspires to greatness in the restored Trump imperium, then she ought to know better than to flatter colonial vanity. But to which of Keir Starmer's policies is she referring? Fiscal drag? The sale of everyone's NHS data to Peter Thiel's Palantir? The forcible injection of the unemployed with weight loss drugs? The dispatch of "job coaches" into psychiatric wards to harangue the patients? The two-child benefit cap? The withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Payment? The incitement of the Israeli use of the surrender or starve strategy in Gaza? The assertion that the slave trade had been no cause for apology? What, exactly?

There are few, if any, swing voters between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. If these 100 are doing anything, then they are trying to get out one of two evenly matched tribes. While the whole thing is far too close to call, it would be delicious to see Trump win because black men would rather not have voted at all, or would even rather have voted for Trump, than pulled the lever for the woman who had kept thousands of them locked up past their release dates as Thirteenth Amendment slavery for her corporate backers, while Muslims and (largely Christian, frequently Lebanese) Arabs would rather have voted for Jill Stein, if at all, than pulled the lever for the anointed successor of Genocide Joe, secure in the knowledge that the situation in the Middle East was already so bad that not even Trump could make it any worse. If Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, Eliot Cohen and Karl Rove would vote for someone, then why should a black man, or a Muslim, or an Arab, or anyone? Our own dear Labour Party is campaigning alongside Cheney, Kristol, Cohen and Rove, so the same question applies here.