Jill Stein announced a surprise presidential bid Thursday, seeking the Green Party’s 2024 nomination. Stein, a physician who ran against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016 as the Green Party&…
If your method of voting is to choose the best person you can imagine, rather than someone who has an actual chance of winning, why vote for any candidate? Why not just write-in vote for Superman? Surely he is less evil than any candidate on the ballot.
Voting is like a game with rules. Sometime you simply can’t win. But if you want the best outcome for the game you need to pick the strategy that leads to that outcome. Folding your arms and refusing to change your strategy when your preferred outcome has no chance of success ensures that the people actually playing the game will have it their way. Demanding nothing but the absolute best to earn your vote, and thus not voting for someone with a chance, is statistically identical to supporting the worse evil. It’s sheer foolishness.
This kind of purity contest accomplishes nothing but shooting yourself in the foot. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
One of them is going to win. One of two realities is actually going to happen. If you actually have no preference between those two realities, then you are ignorant beyond words and I suggest you do even a little bit of research to learn more about what is happening in the world.
On the other hand, if you do prefer one of those realities over the other, yet you work to make the one you don’t prefer come true, then you are far worse than ignorant.
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If your method of voting is to choose the best person you can imagine, rather than someone who has an actual chance of winning, why vote for any candidate? Why not just write-in vote for Superman? Surely he is less evil than any candidate on the ballot.
Voting is like a game with rules. Sometime you simply can’t win. But if you want the best outcome for the game you need to pick the strategy that leads to that outcome. Folding your arms and refusing to change your strategy when your preferred outcome has no chance of success ensures that the people actually playing the game will have it their way. Demanding nothing but the absolute best to earn your vote, and thus not voting for someone with a chance, is statistically identical to supporting the worse evil. It’s sheer foolishness.
This kind of purity contest accomplishes nothing but shooting yourself in the foot. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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One of them is going to win. One of two realities is actually going to happen. If you actually have no preference between those two realities, then you are ignorant beyond words and I suggest you do even a little bit of research to learn more about what is happening in the world.
On the other hand, if you do prefer one of those realities over the other, yet you work to make the one you don’t prefer come true, then you are far worse than ignorant.
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