Reply #265: who cares at this point?

[Two Americas]

Of course most will hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils and all of the rest. We always do. We have for decades.

But why is that? A big part of it is because months and even years before the election we have people saying that we have to. It starts the day after the last election. It isn't really the last resort. It is the first resort. We start with what we would settle for, at every single stage of the process. "Hillary is inevitable" started the day after the election in 2004. The day after. And any who objected were taunted with "whaddya gonna do? Vote for Nader? You are a traitor!"

I long ago learned that it is not enough - as hideous as it is to have to do to get people off of your back - to promise to vote for the Democratic party candidate no matter what. People want something else out of you. It is that something else that people are resisting - and they should resist it.

When and how do we break this cycle? No matter what time - before, during, after, right after, long after, long before, in-between elections - it is always the wrong time. No matter how we approach the subject we are always approaching it the wrong way.