2016 Postmortem

NRQ891

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6. it's evil to vote for a racist, but

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:01 AM

Dec 2016

it is also evil to put someone in the position where they have to choose between voting for someone who has already sold them out, or a racist. I don't think this party has any intention of facing that (at least what I've seen so far, present company excepted)

it's the moral hazard of voting for the 'lesser of the evils'. If both sides are convinced that the population will reliably do it, the choices will be guaranteed to get progressively more evil. The voter who votes for the 'lesser of the evils', while voting for less evil today, is still a passive enabler of future evil, which could ultimately end up be as evil or worse than today's choice

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It isn't really that hard [View all] ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 OP

and sometimes people are just hateful bigots. it's time to stop seeing these deplorables as victims JI7 Dec 2016 #1

Very much so. Their support for a racist is extremely evil. ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 #3

it's evil to vote for a racist, but NRQ891 Dec 2016 #6

I believe they were called out by Hillary and others yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #9

they were fine with non whites being attacked JI7 Dec 2016 #10

brilliantly stated - this party will either comprehend and respond to this truth NRQ891 Dec 2016 #2

H-1b abuse is a big problem ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 #4

'the important things seems to be to stick a thumb in local workers' NRQ891 Dec 2016 #5

Or we can stop repug cheating with vote suppression, et al. brush Dec 2016 #7

we should also be doing that, and should have been doing that for the last 30 years ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 #8