But let's talk about logical outcomes, if we're going to get Vulcan about this.
People are going around guilt-tripping people to vote for their candidate and try to scare them into compliance, saying that third party voters were basically Trump voters and that they were throwing their votes away.
So I’ll simply say no: let us not throw shade on people who are actually following their principles by voting for someone they believe in, just because you think Hillary is somehow better than Trump or Trump is better than Hillary.
No, she isn’t.No, he isn’t.
Donald Trump is a despicable, immoral human being- and so is Hillary. They both have the moral fiber of raw sewage and the records-and the scandals- to prove it. Trump does despicable things in the open, Hillary has the finesse to do them in secret. Neither deserves to be president.
Let us not mount the high horse and shill for the “It’s them or us” mentality that has made every election for the past thirty years “a matter of life or death, the most important election we’ve ever had, and the most dangerous candidate from THE OTHER PARTY we’ve ever had.” let's take that Moral Imperative and stuff it up somewhere noumenal- because for the past thirty or so years it has ALWAYS been an emergency, it has ALWAYS been about not voting for the candidate you actually BELIEVE in but for the candidate who has the biggest chance to defeat the other Bad Guy.
And the result of thirty plus years of practicing that? Of playing the game your way?
An election between Baba Yaga and Gollum.
Yes, this approach has served us well.
So, no, do not guilt trip people who have seen through the bulls and have decided that enough it’s enough- that even if they do not get their candidate elected in this cycle, their performance will be strong enough and significant enough that they will lend legitimacy and strength to the movement, and thus create a viable third alternative for the NEXT election cycle, if this one doesn’t work out.
Because that’s important. It’s more important than the guilt trip you are pulling.
Because the xenophobia, fascism and nationalism that has been stirred by Trump? That isn’t going to go away in the Republican Party. And even if Trump loses this election, this still only opens the doors for someone like him- or worse- to fill that void in the next election.
And then you will lose your shit again, and you will tell us we need to vote for your Democratic candidate, even if it’s nothing more than a scarecrow prepped on a stick. Because, you will say, they are better than the other candidate.
And so continues the neverending dance of ever-lowering standards.
And that is why a third alternative needs to be legitimized. Because of you, and people like you, who scream at people not to vote for the candidates they actually believe in, because they have no chance of winning.
And, nine times out of ten, you complain that American politics are so divided, that fear is such a strong force-
You may pull rank and experience, imploring us to listen because you have been voting for X number of years. If you really had any self awareness, you would look are the world that your modus operandi has created and would realize that you make the argument for your own refutation.
Look in the mirror. You are part of the problem, not the solution.
Voting for the creation of an alternative, captain, is the only logical move. To perpetuate a method that causes only one emergency after another is... highly illogical. Only a fool lets himself be blinded by the immediate fear in such a way that he acts to ensure the repetition of the crises.