Rogueish

imathers:

themodernistwitch:

istealforksfromrestaurants:

Hi Tumblr, it’s me, a slightly older person…

I see a lot of you 20 somethings saying things about how you aren’t going to choose the lesser of two evils and that their policy on important matters are identical so what’s the point they’re both stooges for Wall Street and the Industrial War Complex. 

You are right. Kind of. 

I know y’all LOVE the 90’s. Me too. And I remember after after eight years of Clinton/Gore, I thought those motherfuckers were the devil. I was soooooooooooo upset with Bill Clinton waving his deregulation wand and his fucked foreign policy that I was all FUCK THE DEMOCRATS and I strongly advocated for Raplh Nader, even though he too didn’t really care about my “gonad politics.” Even when not choosing between the “lesser of two evils,” I was STILL having to compromise major issues. 

Having been an adult person through 8 years of Clinton/Gore and 8 years through Bush/Cheney, I can tell you that without a shred of hesitation that I will line up like my ass is on fire to vote for the lesser of two evils because the greater of two evils almost had us all living outside and eating dog food. 

And if you think that a Romney presidency won’t be worse than Bush/Cheney, you are out of your mind. 

I am fucking begging all of you, please, go vote. Aside from the fact that far more dangerous things are happening on your local level, (like collective bargaining being taken away in Illinois) this shit does matter. 

If you think voting for Obama is the lesser of two evils, you’re wrong, it’s the lesser of three because not voting IS voting for Romney. Not voting is voting for dickbag judges that sentence people to jail in counties that have privatized prisons for minor drug infractions. Not voting is voting to remove pensions and collective bargaining and the last shreds of union power from the people. Not voting this election is voting for Feudalism.

Go vote. 

Now pardon me, there’s some damn kids on my lawn and they want candy. 

As another older person (at least, old enough to have been politically active under governments of the left-ish and the right), I want to dissociate myself from the (rather patronizingly expressed) view that it is only a lack of experience which makes the two candidates seem so similar it’s not worth voting. On the contrary, my political experience is an experience of the ineffectiveness of voting for the supposed lesser evil. If you genuinely believe in Obama’s platform, then by all means go ahead and vote for him, of course. But don’t vote for the lesser evil, because every time you vote for the “lesser evil,” it’s less and less a vote for “lesser” and more and more a vote for “evil.” If you vote for the leftish politician because they are supposed to be the lesser evil, you’re making it so that all a politician has to do to win is be fractionally less evil than the alternative. That is, if you vote for Obama because he is the lesser evil, you’re voting for an Obama who will be more like Romney, who will resist the policies of Romney and his supporters less. “If you don’t vote, you’re voting for Romney” is the opposite of the truth. If all you demand of Obama is that he be a “lesser evil,” your vote for Obama is really a vote for Romney.