Reply #161: The end result is almost always between the lesser of two evils. [View All]

[Silent3]

No, I'm not "demanding" that you vote for Democrats in general elections. No, I'm not questioning your right to write in Mickey Mouse or sulk at home on election day if that's what satisfies your need to express how you feel.

What's important to me is end results. Nothing to do with whether the person getting my vote is "entitled" to it. Not whether someone else is a much closer match to my political ideas or not (although I can at least indulge in that more during primary elections).

What matters is the most likely results for the whole country. If you want to talk about "false choices", voting for someone like a Green Party candidate in a general election is more of a "false choice" 99% of the time, because there's no mechanism in the electoral system that will translate your heart-felt intent into anything other than the exact opposite of your intent, and very little chance that you can "punish" the country into eventually learning how so-very-right you were by letting bad electoral results happen.