07-17-2024, 06:16 PM
No, the road you're talking about is the one where there are Ross Perot-types and Ron Paul-types are overlooked because they're deemed 'unwinnable.' That's the road we want to avoid because you can totally vote your conscience in those elections.
I'm talking about elections like this one where there just aren't any good candidates. Instead of being Captain Smith, I view it more like this:
There are several guys vying for captain of the Titanic. None want to slow the ship down or anything, but when that iceberg looms just ahead, who do you want at the helm? None of them are any good. One wants to try and veer around it, one wants to slam right into it and move passengers onto it, and one thinks he can just pull alongside it and mine it for ice cubes. The ship is doomed no matter what, but at least one of these guys is going to save more lives. Do you vote, or do you say that the guy with the best ideas isn't running for captain so who cares?
I'm sure most of us consider ourselves Libertarians, but the Libertarian candidate is terrible and Trump isn't a Libertarian, either. I don't care if you vote for him, RFK, Jr., or anyone else, but saying we may as well watch the ship sink unless a true liberty candidate appears on stage is something I can't stand by and do.
So, no, no one cares about doing nothing but bailing water, as you succinctly put it, but what do you do when there aren't candidates that want to do more than that? In that case, you may as well bail water while you wait for one to come. It's easier to repair a fender bender than a smashed-in hood.
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