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You still chose based on right and wrong, and at the end of the day that’s all most people can do in your fucked up system and that’s ok.
People like McConnel are the ones with the real power to create the options that the people vote on and when they just vote in line with what their party says every single time they have simply failed as representatives of the people.
Buddy, voting for someone that actively supports a genocide isnt "right" anyway you cut it.
It's "less worse".
And if you don't think I'm saying it eloquently enough:
https://letterfromjail.com/
It ain't just a race thing, it's a class thing.
So MLK's quote is very relevant to how Moderates aren't our allies, they're actively working against us.
Easy, bud.
You had two bad options in front of you and used your sense of right and wrong to choose the one that would hurt the least number of people and who wasn’t a cartoonish villain. It was the right thing to do given the circumstances. The wrong thing would have been to be “right” and claim “both sides” as the excuse for further enabling a literal fascist.
If you really want to beat yourself up over the fact that your options were bad then by all means, be my guest, but don’t come at me like I was saying that being a moderate is some great thing.
The problem is we haven't had fair primaries since 2008 and even the "less bad" option is bad.
There is a very small wing of the Dem party who takes a shit ton of money to (legally) rig the primary
And we have to face facts that they're willing to lose the general because the only way they lose power in the party is if a progressive wins and appoints a progressive DNC chair. So because the primary isn't legally an election and they're allowed to put a finger on the scale, they ensure progressives can't win the primary.
Continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils, just ensures our only two options are evil.
We're standing in the middle of a game of chicken where both drivers would rather die than lose.
You might think it's not worth talking about, and while I disagree you can have an opinion.
But why try to stop people from talking about it?
Isn't now the perfect time?
I’m not trying to stop people talking about it. You said it felt bad that you can’t vote right or wrong because both sides feel terrible and the only choice is going for the one that is less terrible. I’m saying that if you voted Dem you still put effort towards doing the right thing. If you really want to feel bad about it from even the angle I’ve been taking this whole time then I’m sorry for interrupting your kink or whatever.