This is an excellent piece. Ramesh writes from a Republican perspective, but there is wisdom here for anybody who refuses to be blackmailed into accepting the unacceptable from both duopoly parties.
It's worth quoting at length.
It's worth quoting at length.
https://twitter.com/RameshPonnuru/status/1318585031988776960
"The voter who decides that neither Biden nor Trump deserves his support will be accused of irresponsibility, of escapism...of wasting a vote. There is, on this view, an obligation to pick among the top two candidates. It is worth resisting this supposed imperative..."
"If a vote that does not determine the outcome of an election is wasted, then every vote is wasted — and wasted all the more if it is cast for someone the voter does not want to be president."
The Biden supporters and the Trump supporters who tell you “it’s a binary choice” want you to vote as though the election result were wholly in your hands."
"And if that scenario were not contrived enough, they implicitly add that at the same time you don’t have the power to elevate a write-in candidate. You must imagine both that your power is counterfactually absolute and that you cannot choose options that are plainly before you."
(writing someone in, voting third party, etc.).
"What you can do is endorse one of these candidates, or refuse. You can determine, wholly, which of those you do. The truth is that neither of these candidates is worthy of the public’s trust. So don’t vote for either one of them, and don’t let anyone tell you that you have to."
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