Charlie wrote, "The left understands the tactic of Divide and Conquer. Do you?"
Lemmings also understand a tactic, the one of blindly following their leader over a cliff.
I don't know who's supposed to wind up "divided and conquered" by our casting our votes for Bush. Are we going to divide the Jim Jeffords wing of the GOP from the Hillary wing of the Dems or something?
Voting for the lesser of two evils makes sense only up to a point, beyond which it no longer applies as a principle because both choices are one hundred percent intolerable. If the white Rhodesian farmers were given the option of voting either for Robert Mugabe or Idi Amin Dada; if the Israelis in their next election were presented with the option of voting either for Yassir Arafat or Osama bin Laden as prime minister; if the Ukrainians in the 1930s had been given the option of voting either for Joseph Stalin or Lavrenti Beria, should the white farmers, or the Israelis, or the Ukrainians go through some sort of mental calculation in an effort to figure out which evil was "the lesser," and vote for that one? Of course not. They'd face facts at that point, and say to each other, "Well, sadly the system hasn't given us an acceptable choice. We're voting for neither."
Charlie wrote, "The left
Charlie wrote, "The left understands the tactic of Divide and Conquer. Do you?"
Lemmings also understand a tactic, the one of blindly following their leader over a cliff.
I don't know who's supposed to wind up "divided and conquered" by our casting our votes for Bush. Are we going to divide the Jim Jeffords wing of the GOP from the Hillary wing of the Dems or something?
Voting for the lesser of two evils makes sense only up to a point, beyond which it no longer applies as a principle because both choices are one hundred percent intolerable. If the white Rhodesian farmers were given the option of voting either for Robert Mugabe or Idi Amin Dada; if the Israelis in their next election were presented with the option of voting either for Yassir Arafat or Osama bin Laden as prime minister; if the Ukrainians in the 1930s had been given the option of voting either for Joseph Stalin or Lavrenti Beria, should the white farmers, or the Israelis, or the Ukrainians go through some sort of mental calculation in an effort to figure out which evil was "the lesser," and vote for that one? Of course not. They'd face facts at that point, and say to each other, "Well, sadly the system hasn't given us an acceptable choice. We're voting for neither."