I am reminded of two quotes from Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson:
How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?
Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?
How low? Now, I guess we know. Voting for the lesser evil for 50 years has got you Trump. Twice. How much lower are you going to go?
I have no solutions. Things will probably have to break completely before the mending can begin.
Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils
Compulsory voting would solve so many issues. HST’s take really falls apart when you consider the amount of people not participating in their democracy.
I am reminded of two quotes from Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson:
How low? Now, I guess we know. Voting for the lesser evil for 50 years has got you Trump. Twice. How much lower are you going to go?
I have no solutions. Things will probably have to break completely before the mending can begin.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/
Well that’s a depressing read. The American rot runs deep. It’s frankly disturbing how accurate that article still is.
The writer drops some great lines though.
Thanks.
Compulsory voting would solve so many issues. HST’s take really falls apart when you consider the amount of people not participating in their democracy.
Delusional