Shrinking the Liberal Tent
I have gone back and forth on whether I could support Gary Johnson in 2012 over Barack Obama. His stance on warfare and the drug wars is much better and I think much more progressive than Obama’s. But his positions on many other items are not, and I worry that support for Johnson would mean default support for a lot of other policies I disagree with.
But let me say one thing – claiming that people can’t be considered liberals or progressives just because they decide that supporting Johnson for his good policies on war and drugs is a stupid and pernicious thing to do.
Glenn Greenwald is a consistent, stalwart defender of progressive ideals. To claim that he is neither a liberal or a progressive because he votes his conscious is ludicrous and small-minded. Greenwald was a critic of the security state when Bush was in power and he remains one now that Obama has carried on many of Bush’s uglier policies. And good for him. Just as important as his consistency on these issues is the fact that he’s ri
