(September 21, 2020 at 11:15 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The center is better than fascism, and it's where the swing voters are. The presidential election can't be won by Democrats without them. It may not be ideal, but the Republicans have it worse: they can't win without the deplorables and so they've moved so far to the right that they're losing the center. You can't do anything in the government if you lose. I left the LP because the GOP is such a clear and present danger and only the Democrats have the numbers to have a chance of stopping them. I wish I had given up my 'voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil' rhetoric sooner. There's never any choice but between greater and lesser evils when it comes to voting because no candidate is perfect, but you never have to take any blame for your candidate's actions if you don't pick one or your choice can't get elected. If you're not voting against the greater evil by voting for a lesser evil that can win, what are you doing to actually stop it or even slow it down?
That's one way to look at a representative government. Another way is to insist that there actually be some choice that you're voting for instead of against. Not a perfect candidate, just some candidate that does represent your interests. I assume that biden is that candidate for a good number of dem or likely dem voters. I'm happy that they have their candidate and I understand their vote on it's face and I expect that if the people for whom biden is that candidate....vote for biden....he'll win. I think that would be great.
I don't think that there is a left, a center, and fascism..though. I think that the american center is the center of american fascism. The center of fascism is still fascism...and we're here discussing moral evils and obligations to the lessers of this and that. I think it's relevant.
I won't be voting for handsome joe - but I will continue to do what I have been doing.
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