• krolden@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you end up with the worst evil imaginable.

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      1 year ago

      But we only ever have 2 evils. There is no “other” to choose. The old folks make sure of that during primaries, they vote and they choose people who look like them and are their age, so we always end up with the 2 worst choices.

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          The right loves anti-electoralism on the left, it means that they have less of a fight from the left.

          Can you imagine how bad things would be if people didn’t vote if they felt like they were picking between the lesser of 2 evils?

          This nation would look a whole hell of a lot like modern Florida with it’s politics because Republicans in general turn out way more often than anyone else to vote.

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            Then why have things been getting so much worse over the past 50 years even with plenty of blue boys and gals getting put in office?

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              What about the good that has happened?

              Do you think gay marriage would have been protected?

              Access to birth control secured?

              Anti-sodomy laws getting struck down?

              The Affordable Care Act passing?

              Disability rights?

              Do you think any of those things would have happened if Republicans been able to seize power and hold it unopposed over the last 50 years? No. None of those things would have happened. Those things happened because people further left than them got elected, the lesser of 2 evils won some elections.

              Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better.

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              Ummm because nuance is a thing that exists. Global conditions, etc. I mean the guy in power during the pandemic saying we should inject bleach or nuke incoming hurricanes sure as shit helped things be worse.

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              Because Republicans? We’ve not had plenty of blues elected. We’ve seen abysmal showings from the left and republicans being elected across the nation who are setting out to destroy people’s rights.