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Americans from across the spectrum have criticized the politics of lesser evils, whereby citizens vote more for their least-hated candidate than for their most-loved. Lesser-evil voting sustains a political culture defined by rivalry, fear, and dysfunction.
Straight Arrow News contributor Rashad Richey encourages us to move beyond the politics of lesser evils and warns us that it is a ruinous path for our country to take.
And look at the current front-runners in the Republican Party. Well, all three of the front-runners have high negative, everybody is negative, but they are the cream of the crop as it relates to our politics in America. That’s a problem. We should be a nation that literally promotes the best among us, not the worst. And then we feel as if we have no choice but to vote for the lesser of two evils. That becomes the argument.
I just saw where the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, literally had a big fallout with Donald Trump. Trump attempted to destroy his political career, said that it would have been better to vote for Stacey Abrams for governor than vote for the Republican Kemp. Even Kemp, the governor of Georgia, has come out and said that if Trump is the nominee, he will still support Trump.
Ted Cruz, another individual, during the first time Trump ran for president, he said what? He said the truth about Trump. Trump criticized Ted Cruz, talked about the man’s wife. Ted Cruz still endorsed him. Many others have done the same.
When did we come to this place, where literally we expect nothing, nothing out of our political leaders? We expect them to be bad, to be the worst among us. We accept behavior from them that we would not accept from our own children, or anyone in our personal circle.
