I should vote for some 3rd party sure loser while a democrat wins the seat?
No thanks
You should vote for whoever is best and refuse to give in to the fear mongering. But you won't. You'll line up as you're told and vote for a shitting candidate because your scared.
You're both right. But voting for the lesser of two evils is wrong on so many levels. Especially when you consider that voting out of fear (lesser of two evils), only keeps any good 3rd party from ever gaining any traction. It keeps them from ever being able to bring competition to the duopoly.
This is something the R & D's have set up to keep them both in charge. And by doing that, it forces us to have to settle for bad politicians in their party's.
I justified my 3rd party votes by:
1. Realizing that the system is rigged in the duopoly's favor.
2. Both party's will come together to keep a great 3rd party candidate from winning anything.
3. That my vote is just one vote. And that it's not going to change the out come of any election. So why the hell not vote for someone that I agree with the most?
Voting for the lesser of two evils is like a single mom enabling her 30yr old loser kid. Letting him/her stay rent free, with his kids and not forcing him to even get a job and get his own life in order.
It's my view that Republicans should simply stop voting for republicans. Let the democrats kick their ass in a major way, for a couple elections in a row. And if/when asked, the party leadership should be told that we're simply tired of RINO's. We're sick of the Republicans promising to bring opposition to democrats. And that they have 4 decades of caving to the left. Allowing them to go without a budget amendment (even when they have the majority). Increasing the debt ceiling, then spending so much afterwards that the debt ceiling has to be increased again and again and again.
I agree, the country will be worse off for those two elections. BUT, once the party leadership finally understands the tough love thing, they'll start supporting better candidates who will actually bring some competition to the democrats.
Enabling the GOP RINO's ain't going to fix the problem. And if we keep electing them, they'll never understand how bad they are for this country. And they'll just continue caving to the democrats and taking this country even further left of center than it already is.