{"id":6372,"date":"2020-04-23T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:17:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:17:01","slug":"voting-biden-lesser-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/voting-biden-lesser-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is voting for Biden the lesser Evil? Can the Left still unite around a vision? Debate with Paul Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Is voting for Biden the lesser Evil? Can the Left still unite around a vision? Debate with Paul Jay<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this interview with journalist, award winning filmmaker and the founder of theanalysis.news Paul Jay, we debate and discuss whether voting for Joe Biden is the lesser evil when compared with Donald Trump. In addition we examine a possible vision for the future of the left and inquire whether it is still possible to unite around it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO:\u00a0Is voting for Biden the lesser Evil? Can the Left still unite around a vision? Debate with Paul Jay<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is voting for Biden the lesser Evil? Can the Left still unite around a vision? Debate with Paul Jay\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tz4X5Hs8ts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT PAUL JAY:<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_400x400-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Jay\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Paul Jay<\/strong>\u00a0is a journalist and filmmaker. He\u2019s the founder and publisher of theAnalysis.news\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theanalysis.news\/\">https:\/\/www.theanalysis.news\/<\/a>\u00a0and President of Counterspin Films\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterspinfilms.com\/\">http:\/\/www.counterspinfilms.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His films have won numerous awards at major festivals around the world. He is past chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada, the main organization of documentary filmmakers in Canada. Jay is the founding chair of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and chaired the Hot Docs! board for its first five years.\u00a0\u00a0Jay was the co-creator and co-executive producer of Face Off and counterSpin, nightly prime time debate programs that ran for ten years on CBC Newsworld. Jay was the founder of The Real News Network.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview with journalist, award winning filmmaker and the founder of theanalysis.news Paul Jay, we debate and discuss whether voting for Joe Biden is the lesser evil when compared with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[20952],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","channel-the-source"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is voting for Biden the lesser Evil? 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