ATL Bear said:How about simply "voting the best", regardless of chance to win? Continuing to perpetuate the two party coordinated power play is what has gotten us here.GrowlTowel said:ATL Bear said:GrowlTowel said:ATL Bear said:GrowlTowel said:ATL Bear said:GrowlTowel said:ATL Bear said:Wangchung said:RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:TexasScientist said:
To think Republicans picked this icon of Christian virtue to replace Cornyn - just when you think the Republican Party can't get any lower.
Talarico is a joke but I cannot in good conscience vote for Paxton. I will not. He has shown us who he is. My voting for the lesser of two evils are done. Not doing it
anymore.
The greater of the two evils thanks you for your support.
The greatest evil is this binary thinking that entrenches the two party system and the bilge of choices brought to the fore.
How so? The people were given the opportunity to pick the candidates that will appear on the November ballot. The people picked Low T and Paxton - rejecting Hunt, Cornyn, Crockett.
Why call this democratic process the greatest evil? Would less democracy make our elections less evil?
The evil is minimizing democracy into a binary choice. It's even worse when we sacrifice principles in order to promote that fallacy. Here's a hint. You don't have to vote for Talarico or Paxton.
True. But the reality is one of them is going to win the election. If you want to have a say in which one represents you for the next six years, you pick the one closest to your positions.
We are not a parliamentary system. It is winner take all. Not voting merely allows the worst candidate into office. That is truly evil.
Policy and politics ebb and flow. Principles are being sacrificed for the sake of victory at all costs. The "lesser of two evils" openly admits that evil is acceptable. Perpetuating the race to the bottom means the difference between the two options become minimal and/or you invite different types of evil into the equation. Policy agreement isn't an excuse for having low or no standards.
Ridiculous. We had primaries in Texas to select the parties' candidates. Just because you do not like the candidates selected by your neighbors does not give you the moral high ground to take your ball and go home. and pout.
Either Low T or Paxton will be your senator for the next six years. If you do not care which one it is, fine. Sit at home.
Voting is not a race to the bottom.
Either Jon Ossoff will continue as my Senator or Mike Collins will be my new one. I'll be voting for Collins. He's the better candidate, not to mention Ossoff never should have beaten David Perdue in 2020 (absentee ballot madness). But that's beside the point.
Voting for the "least of two evils" is a race to the bottom. And I will point out the practice of continuing that.
Then vote for the best of the two that have a chance. Not voting accomplishes nothing.
Best of luck to Collins. I am sure there are plenty in GA that feel the same about Ossoff and Collins as people do about Low T and Paxton.
It is a two party system because it is winner take all. It will always be a two party system.
Voting to get a sticker is just silly.
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