I was reading an editorial written by R. Lee Wrights, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, regarding how we accept the lesser of two evils into our lives and end up making one huge mistake. So often, we are presented with two or more choices in life, none of which we particularly like, so we choose "the lesser of two evils" as we see it. It's the same in politics, such as when Obama was running against McCain in 2008. I didn't like either one of them, but I disliked McCain less, so I chose the lesser of two evils. Perhaps millions of Americans also didn't like either one, but they knew what they had in McCain and didn't know what they had in Obama, so they voted for the lesser of two evils, which was Obama in their minds.
The point is, in either event you are voting for something or someone you perceive as being evil, only to a lesser degree than the alternative. One guy killed four people, one guy only killed two people, so I'll vote for the guy who killed two people. Really?
Two often in politics, we are presented with two or more unpopular choices. That means we are not attracting enough qualified candidates, for one reason or another. Something in the "system" is to blame for that. But, we don't have to chose between two candidates we don't like; just because we're in the voting booth at the time doesn't mean we have to vote for each position. And, just because we know that the "good guy" doesn't stand a chance of winning doesn't mean that we should not vote for him or her.
We've been faced with too many situations where we had to vote for a Presidential candidate and didn't like the two front-runners, but were afraid "the good guy" didn't stand a chance. Next election, I'm voting for the "good guy" and letting the two evils both hang out to dry.
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