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This is what "voting for the lesser of two evils" got us.
This would hit a lot harder for me if I didn't spend the last decade watching a disturbing fraction of the population not just vote for, but vocally support and make a part of their personality, one of the worst people on the planet. (edit: you know, the "greater of two evils.")
I'm in the US, of course.
This literally what not voting for the lesser of two evils got us. Letting what you refer to as the greatest evil run the country is cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the lesser evil still gets blamed. Damn, that's some effective evil.
Yeah, exactly this. People actively arguing against voting for the lesser evil, letting the greater evil win and now blaming the lesser evil anyways (otherwise they would have to accept responsibility). Idiocracy in motion.
yup. its not because of clinton, obama, biden. its because of reagan, bush1N2, trump
And otherwise not voting
I think it's more so this is what uneducated and propagandized voting gets us. Also continuing anti-voter practices like gerrymandering, PACs, and not employing choice ranked voting. Not to include lobbying, and things like citizens united. Informed people making rational decisions isn't the problem. The horde of ignorant and propagandized individuals is the problem