Bernie Sanders: To Defeat Oligarchy, I Would Run for President

[riqster]

167. The greater of two evils is really fucking evil.

I dig what you're saying, but working in food pantries and shelters from the Clinton years, through Bush and into Obama's tenure; that greater evil took a huge toll on those least able to defend themselves. I and other volunteers saw that evil emerge and do its worst. And when Obama won, we saw the evil weaken, and were able to beat it back.

It was not a small difference, not a minor philosophical quibble, not a "no real difference" as some have said. Not out on the sharp end, not in the Midwest, not where the Repub economic policies destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives in a few short years.

Nope. I'll hold my nose if I have to, before I have to witness such a cataclysm of misery caused by Repube control of the White House again. I have to look at the victims in the eye, and tell them "I voted as best I could to keep you safe."

Because they do not have the luxury of political debates: they are trying to keep warm and dry and not starve to death. There is (in my opinion), nothing more noble and no cause more just than to feed a hungry family, when their government has turned its back on them.

And if we vote in such a way as to help enable another Repube to take over the Presidency, then all who voted thus bear some degree of responsibility for that misery, no matter the excellence of their reasoning or purity of their cause. Repubs in office are a far greater evil.

Try thinking this way: instead of "choosing the lesser evil", try "fighting the greater evil". It is closer to the truth.