The Lesser of Two Evils; Myopia!

Yesterday, while approaching an intersection (stop sign) I noticed a message printed on the back window of the SUV I was approaching. As the distance between me and the vehicle closed I was able to read; “It’s important to remember that when Voting [sic] for the lesser of two evils the result is that one of the two evils still gets elected!”

For decades I’ve heard this election-time phrase, the most common occurrence being presidential elections, and I find the premise of this position to be brutally malignant. The idea is a form of intellectual myopia which serves only as a tool for relieving oneself of personal responsibility to a sacred duty. It provides the appearance of being intolerant of a condition that clearly you’ve no interest in addressing and yet you are given the sanctuary to remain ever so conscientious all the while being completely void of any conviction.

Voting for an outcome, regardless of the opposition to it, is standing for an Ideal even if it takes a lifetime for others to catch on to the substance of it and your level of conviction must be no less worthy of your vote! A great many have given their lives, their fortunes and sacred honor to insure you are provided this gift of self-determination and expression.

Now then, take for example the current Clinton vs. Trump Presidential Campaign. If the substance of your personal reverence for this Country and its founding principles, assuming you accept that the highest goal and ambition of Government, in a representative form, is the preservation and enhancement of the Sovereign Individuals Liberty to Express its Inalienable Privilege of Freedom. There is no ability to do either without a sound foundation of Morality without which there is no capacity to grasp the domain of what constitutes the boundaries of One’s Rightful Liberty to Express any number of One’s Freedoms. It is totally unacceptable that you opt out based simply on the myopic perspective of such a premise as “lesser of two evils.”

What possible future for this Country will there be if we continue to progress down the road with so casual a relationship with outcome? The further we go the more extreme the distance between what is promising and what persistently degrades grows ever more distant as it is painful. To vote for Clinton because she’s a Democrat is no more rational than voting for Trump because he’s the lesser evil and the point is no different for those in the  voting for “anyone else but” Clinton or Trump camp.

It comes down, in my opinion, to a very simple premise: The progression of representative decay became most conspicuous with the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson and has continued, fairly unabated, since then. It is highly unlikely that one should expect that 105 years of retrograde leisure will be overcome by one sudden shift and yet one inviolable fact remains; it will never occur if, first, the shift does not occur.

In this election cycle a most disturbing mood has surfaced; those who will vote for Clinton and/or “anyone else but” based solely on their fear of Trump, but yet will not-not vote for Clinton despite the fact that they repelled by her well-worn and well-documented track of graft and corruption. Now then, add to this opulent list of previously referenced participant’s the gelatin-like crop of GOP letter-signing apparatchiks, every American should be asking themselves a very serious question: Why so visceral a response to Trump? Why “doth” them protest so much? The answer is, to me, quite simple: They don’t fear what Trump will do to the Country; they don’t fear what he might do to the American People and they don’t even fear what he’ll do militarily; No, they fear what he’ll do that will upset the trough they’ve been feeding from.

To my mind there should never be a tolerance for this abuse it sets loose,across the entirety of the human condition, an acceptance and tolerance for thievery. The fact is well documented that I am no more a supporter of Trump than I would be of the plague save for one scenario: If being consumed by the plague were avoidable by voting for him. The way Americans are positioning their discussions regarding Clinton vs. Trump you’d think they were merely talking about the color selection of their shoe laces. One should hope the choice were so inconsequential. 

If George Washington were running for President in the forum of the current era Americans would turn him away on the grounds that he had wooden teeth the pretention being that his entertaining of foreign dignitaries, given his dentures, would be intolerably unfashionable and, after all, we are such a fashionably-correct People. When one is unable to see past the false premise simulating reality then any illusion forms a valiant substitute for substantive truth. We must never be willing to accept this quorum of thought as a pathway to our highest and best possible outcome. Not ever! The shift must start now.

Curtis C. Greco, Founder

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