While I am trying to focus where this country is going ……..all those rabid Trump-sters so they do not have to hear the facts are fixating on the protests…that way they do not have to look at their candidate they can just continue their blind support…..those protesters have nothing to do with how Trump will govern.
This past election I was given grief from several corners of the internet because I said I would vote my principles and vote Green Party……of course there was the usual crap about I would be handing the election to the other side (whatever side that was)…..that I should just fall into line and vote for a candidate that I did not like or approve of…..something I cannot do and will not do.
Basically they wanted me to hold my nose and vote for one of the two major parties….in essence I was to vote for the “lesser of evils”……for the good of the country……(I laughed then and laugh now)……
As millions of Americans head to the polls today to “have their voices heard” and “make a difference,” many will likely carry out their voting rituals with the intent of electing the candidate they view as the lesser evil. They will vote for Hillary Clinton to stop Donald Trump or vote for Donald Trump to stop Hillary Clinton — at least, that’s what they tell themselves.
Every four years, Americans tacitly accept evil, morally content to accept authority from the candidate they subjectively designate the least harmful. They view this as the practical solution to America’s corruption and inevitable path to destruction. They often mock and chastise those who refuse to compromise their consciences for the sake of participating in a broken system.
Source: Proof That 100 Years of Voting for the “Lesser Evil” Gave Us Trump and Hillary
That’s right…..after about a century of voting for crap candidates and this is where the country has come…..
It is early in a soon to be Trump administration…..as the wise ones say….we will have to wait and see if his election is the seismic switch they think it will be…..
There are some candidates from the last 100 years that deserve some recognition, but only because of the situation they were in and decisions they made at the time. Franklin Roosevelt for one 🙂 Regardless, I’m wishing to the point of my eyes bleeding that this massive charlie foxtrot of an election in 2016 finally gives the third party candidates a foot in the door and finally break the two-party stranglehold.
I have been told for 30 years that I need to buck up and vote….I did not like any candidate in that time…..so I would not vote the “lesser evil”….I hope you are right…but we will have to see how this all shakes out by the next election…
And thanx again….chuq
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
Thanx so much for the re-blogs….chuq
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While appreciating very much the thought presented here, I smile sadly, to acknowledge one of the very first public discussions of an idea I’ve been spouting for some time, as well-expressed by Jerry Garcia, to wit: “Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
In order to see any change at all in the way things are, humanity cannot continue to hold the same delusional, WRONG beliefs they’ve been holding for millennia. When the majority of voters will actually make the decision to correct their mistaken belief in the system as it is, they will first have to have already made the extremely unpopular decision they have been wrong all along. The simple fact that most humans won’t do that is the root cause of much of what we see today; they refuse to accept being wrong, and thus, never make the effort to change…..
In order to do the right thing, one must first stop accepting the wrong as acceptable…no matter how hard it is.
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Exactly….but Americans have the win at all costs and it even goes thru politics….chuq