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Electile Dysfunction

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Electile Dysfunction

A Guide for Unaroused Voters

Alan Dershowitz

New York: 2016

Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for Unaroused Voters
2016 by Alan Dershowitz

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, please contact RosettaBooks at production@rosettabooks.com, or by mail at One Exchange Plaza, Suite 2002, 55 Broadway, New York, NY 10006.

Electronic edition published 2016 by RosettaBooks
Cover design by Corina Lupp

ISBN-13 (Hardcover): 978-0-7953-5021-4
ISBN-13 (EPUB): 978-0-7953-5020-7

This book is lovingly dedicated to
my great-nieces and -nephews,
Zara, Mars, Austin, and Marley
future voters (and perhaps office-holders )
who will remedy our current electile dysfunction

Contents

Introduction

1. The Causes of the Dysfunction
   • Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Bigotry: From the Campus to the Future
   • The Canary in the Coal Mine: Israel
   • Foreign Policy Beyond Israel
   • The General Drift
2. The Virtues and Vices of Unchecked Populism
   • Checking and Balancing Democracy
   • Republican and Democratic Parties as Checks on Populism
   • Can a Woman Be a Populist?
   • European Populism: Make Hungary Great!
3. The Case Against Democracy by Default: Make a Checklist and Vote
   • A Presidential Checklist

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Everybody Sucks 2016

The 2016 presidential electionthe most bizarre in my lifetimemay well be decided not by which candidate is liked more than the other, but rather by which is disliked less. Polls show that a majority of Americans have unfavorable opinions of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and would strongly consider supporting a third-party candidate. Indeed, an Associated Press poll taken just before the nominating conventions found that 81 percent of Americans say they would feel afraid following the election of one of the two politicians, and 25 percent said, It doesnt matter who wins. Theyre scared of both. This antagonism is apparently so widespread that an online store is selling bumper stickers, shirts, signs, and other paraphernalia with the logo EVERYBODY SUCKS 2016.

One comment writer to the New York Times explained that he wouldnt vote for Trump or Clinton because, he said: Im resigned to having a terrible president starting next January, but there is no way Ill be responsible for electing him or her.

Rarely have both candidates, both parties, and both houses of Congress been viewed so unfavorably by the voting public. Voters are angry, frustrated, and resentful, and with good reason: over the past several years, Congress has been incapable of passing even the most uncontroversial legislation, much less taking meaningful steps to address some of the serious economic and social problems facing our nation. This has resulted in the president taking constitutionally questionable steps, such as executive orders on immigration and on environmental regulations, which the courts have struck down. The result has been gridlock and stalemate.

There is frustration among working-class people whose take-home pay has not kept pace with those at the top of the economic pyramid, especially on Wall Street. There is anger among people of color regarding the symptoms of what they believe is structural racism manifested in high unemployment, high rates of imprisonment, and increasingly visible police bias. There is disappointment over our inability to deal rationally with what many view as a crisis regarding our immigration policy. And there is emotional furysome rational, some notabout the state of our country and the world. Throughout history, radical left-wing extremists, as well as reactionary right-wing extremists, have exploited popular grievances such as these to their political advantage. This dangerous phenomenon is threatening many countries around the world today. It is also impacting the current election here at home.

The Shrinking Center

In the kind of political environment we are now experiencing, campaigns tend to emphasize the negative over the positive, the unfavorable over the favorable, and the downsides over the upsides. Voters look to simple-minded panaceas, to change for changes sake, to revolution over evolution, to disruptive violenceand to extremes on both sides of the political spectrum. Hence the success of Donald Trump and the unexpected strength of Bernie Sandersboth of whom ran against more centrist, establishment candidates. The actress and Sanders surrogate Susan Sarandon explained why, in her view, outsiders like Sanders and Trump have become so popular:

A lot of people felt disenfranchised. A lot of people are working so hard and getting nowhere. A lot of people are sick with politics the way it is Bernie and Trump spoke to those people . Then she added, Its like the dark and the light so will some of those people go over to the dark side I dont know, people are angry.

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