Reply #27: I've been working from the pragmatic, "lesser of two evils" POV for years [View All]

[Oak2004]

but I think I will have no more of that. The "lesser of two evils" seems to be marching ever further towards the simply evil, but not evil enough to win over the hearts and vote fraud of the purely evil.

Instead I'm going to support only those candidates who actually stand for something worth standing for and who have spine enough to stand up straight and fight for what they stand for. That means, among other things, I'm going to hold our Congressional delegation to that standard. Bernie passes (sometimes barely, but he does), Leahey fails on principle and spine, and my moral jury is still out on Jeffords.

I'm going to fight for the policy of the Progressive Party running a full slate of candidates, and I will push for that to mean, where necessary, electable Senate candidates. It it splits the vote well, so be it -- is that any different than what we're getting in Washington through "lesser of two evil" politics? And you can bet I'll be voting Green in 2008 -- assuming, of course, there is a vote -- unless the Democrats give me a really good reason (ie, a candidate who stands for something other than more evil)