I think you're forgetting that this is the most important election of our lifetimes. If we lose this one, there won't be a next election.

— last election

Which is more evil, Dr Frankenstein or the monster?

Seriously. Someone let me know when we’re getting off the internet and rioting.

really it seems like it's blaming people for just voting & hoping, instead of organizing and building a movement. voting for the lesser evil is not enough.

plus it's objectively wrong as exemplified by the last election

Because good people aren't wealthy enough or have the right connections outside of local elections MAYBE

Because that's one of the evils tolerated by lesser evils.

The last few years are an example of what happens when you stop choosing the lesser evil.

Of course, what we should be doing is working on getting a non-evil to a position of being selectable. But who's got time or energy for that?

The problem is that, despite people swearing they never had any other choice, there has always been many instances of good options that go unchosen while the population fights over voting for turbo-evil vs naturally-aspirated-evil.

Here in Canada we have three main parties and people will do ANYTHING to justify why they cannot vote progressive and must vote for the centrist/conservative party because otherwise the conservative-conservatives might get power. Now we have a banker steam-rolling our people and our environment for free.

Exactly. The lesser evil hasn't won enough because a bunch of peeps are just fucking evil and others don't care enough to vote for the less evil version because they aren't less evil enough.

So instead we get constantly more evil variants instead of constantly getting better (less and less evil) for generations

Fucking stupid original post

We have a shitty 2 party system, keep voting lesser evil until we can fix it or don't be pissed when evil people win again and again.

Your assuming lesser evil stays the same. If they move lock step with the greater evil though then guess what?

It's not even a real bumper sticker, this image isn't a real photo

You're ignorant of history. Yes, we'll have two parties due to our electoral system, but precisely which two parties can easily change. It's happened before. In fact, that's how the Republican party came to be. The Abolitionists spent nearly a century doing exactly what you advocate - voting for the lesser evil. Slavery only became more entrenched. It was only when they were willing to abandon the existing parties entirely and support a new third party - the Republicans, that Abolition actually happened.

We would have never had a President Lincoln if our ancestors had followed your advice.

Which is the real reason why the lesser evil can get away with being as evil as they are.

The 2024 election was the result of choosing the lesser evil in 2020. You can't analyze these problems by looking at only one election at a time. In the grand scheme of things, Biden winning in 2020 was a net-negative for the country. It gave us four more years of milquetoast centrism that did nothing to reduce the appeal of MAGA. If Trump had won again in 2020, he wouldn't have had four years to prepare for a second term. There wouldn't have been a Project 2025.

Electoral myopia is a mortal sin of Democrats. Every election they pretend that no other election has ever happened before, and no other election will ever happen again.

I don't know what would be sadder: if all the various people in this thread posting variations of the above are wilfully missing the point, or, if they genuinely can't comprehend any other way.