The Lesser of Two Evils
Is choosing not to vote a vote for the candidate you don’t want?
The Lesser of Two Evils
Is choosing not to vote a vote for the candidate you don’t want?
Some are set to not vote or are choosing to vote third party in the upcoming election. Is this in essence a vote for the person they don’t want in office though?
Should you choose the “lesser of two evils”? Isn’t that still voting for evil? Or is it just performing damage control?
Many progressives “held their noses” and voted for Hillary and then Biden when the DNC sabotaged Bernie in 2016 and 2020 after already having crowned their candidate before either candidate even announced they were going to run.
This has left a bad taste in the mouths of many progressive and leftists.
Add on top of that slight the Biden administration funding the current genocide in Palestine, and Congress welcoming the war criminal President Netanyahu with open arms. Then promising to continue the supply line to Israel of taxpayer’s dollars to the tune of billions, and continued munitions to keep murdering innocent civilians.
Many on the left are saying they are just not going to vote, or that they are going to vote for Jill Stein since out of Trump, Kamala, RFK, and Stein, she’s the only one who actually takes a pro-Palestine, anti-genocide, stance.
The counter-argument to this is that a vote for a third party is “throwing your vote away”, and that “the time for a protest vote is not now, our democracy is in danger!”, these arguments were used back in 2020 as well as 2016.
Does it make sense to vote for the lesser of two evils? Sure, it looks to be a pragmatic choice, Kamala is less likely to do horrible things against minority groups and less likely to mess with things like Obamacare.
At the same time though I absolutely see the argument for not voting, or voting third party. If a third party ever actually won an election or was even a major contender it could change the hold the two-party duopoly has on the country, which is incredibly damaging and has the country in this current situation.
Seriously…our options up until Biden dropped out were a man who belongs in an assisted living and a felonious failed business/con man.
This shows you the power that the current establishment has over the population, normally just giving you the illusion of a choice but this time it was fairly stark that they didn’t really care what you thought of the choices, here they are…deal with it!
Also, you’re completely right for wanting to not choose between two candidates that are both owned by AIPAC, and will continue to send your tax dollars not to help fix homelessness, bankruptcy due to medical debt, homeless veterans, insane education expenses, or ever-increasing costs of living…but rather send it to a country on the other side of the world to continue ethnic cleansing.
If you have a problem with it, then you’re anti-Semitic, and they passed a resolution through Congress to make sure that is actually the legal stance as well.