General Discussion

Using your vote to prevent greater harm. If you choose not to do so, you enable that greater harm: or, at least, do nothing to stop it from happening.

From your statements in this exchange, it sounds as though your decision tree is very narrowly focused on yourself, your ideology, and how you will feel about your vote.

My decision tree has more branches than that. I would LIKE a candidate who represents my interests, but I will settle for one that can at least not increase the devastation caused by the "Republican Party".

Here's another stat: 8 votes. That is how many votes it took last election to turn Ohio into a completely one-party state, where the Reeps are running wild, starving the poor, oppressing the women, fattening the rich and destroying the environment.

The whole "no difference, no choice" canard falls apart: because, you see, it WAS DIFFERENT when the Dems could at least slow the Reeps down. Now, it's ALEC, Koch and Co. with no brakes on the train. It is worse when the Reeps can do whatever they damned well wish.

It IS WORSE now than it was before. Quantitatively. And it is worse because a mere 8 voters didn't cast a ballot for a single Dem in a single State House district.

Had eight people dragged themselves to the polls and voted for a Dem, much harm could have been averted. But they didn't. So now poor people are being harmed. Women are being harmed. Disabled people are being harmed.

And they are being harmed because people like you said what you say, and acted as you propose we act.

But hey, don't let the cries of hungry children, the groans of the elderly, or the cries of women dying because they lost their health care to a one-party Reep government disturb you in your tower of purity. Because what matters the suffering of the people when you have made that ever-so-pure choice?