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There is no reason to support the “lesser evil”
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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I don't agree with this, but going along with it for the sake of the argument: By letting the greater evil get into power, you are showing them that they can get away with way more than if it were the lesser.
So let's say you didn't vote for the lesser evil and the greater evil has narrowly won. The greater evil takes away your right to vote and puts you into a prison camp. What have you gained, a sense of moral superiority? Was that worth it?
Yeah. That has been the strategy for the Republican Party since Bill Clinton; deny Democrats any potential political win even if the policy win is popular with their own voters. Then, blame Democrats for not getting what they promised done.
what if, by giving the lesser evil more energy and making them a greater evil, you give them the ability to put you in prison camps when the original greater evil could not?
Nobody is protesting the concentration camps under biden, or even calling them that, yet they did under trump.
Everyone upvoting this person missed the point of the post
You haven't explained how that is supposed to work though. Why couldn't the greater evil do this, what's stopping them? And you truly think that every political party has the very same goals underneath? Let's take an extreme example: Germany 1932. You think if the SPD (social democrats) had won the election instead of the NSDAP, it would have been just as bad? You think they would have also slaughtered all the Jews and started WW2, because they were secretly just as evil? That doesn't sound reasonable or realistic to me. There's more to politics than whether a party is capitalist or socialist. Nuances exist.
Which camps are you talking about? Is it these?