Beware the 'lesser-of-two-evils' trap
Wow. It’s one week before Election Day, the re-election of Obama is
unthinkable, and the election is extremely close – every vote counts.
Against this backdrop, I am still seeing lots of articles and blog
postings from self-described conservatives, Christians,
constitutionalists, independents and patriots fervently proclaiming they
will not vote for either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, because they
refuse to choose “the lesser of two evils.”
“The lesser of two evils is still evil,” they intone, as though those magical words encapsulate some transcendent logic.
Ironically, most of these people revere America’s Founding Fathers,
quote them and refer to them often – indeed they see themselves as
following in the founders’ footsteps, or at least adhering to their
principles.
But in this they are profoundly deluded. For in reality, the Founding
Fathers, by drafting, ratifying and implementing the Constitution of
the United States, engaged in the most monumental example in American
history of deliberately choosing the lesser of two evils.
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