“Then you can take your principle and comfort yourself with it.”
There it it! If that is one’s attitude as we sit here and debate our candidates, we run the risk of alienating those WE NEED to win the general. Sure, it feels good to drive home the point, walk away from the argument feeling vindicated, but if you haven’t persuaded (with either your valid arguments or, just as importantly, your means of persuasion), then come election day, you may just find your candidate lacking sufficient support.
On THAT day, how will it feel to know that those who chose principles over expediency stayed home (having chosen to win a battle here or there, but costing your team the war?
My point is simply to wonder whether people are going to be willing to hold their nose to vote anymore. You seem to think they will.
The point you raised, whether or not voters should not vote, was the point I addressed.
My point was that if you think you can accomplish something utilizing some make-believe principle of goodness by not voting as a protest is foolish. Hillary will waltz in.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” — Burke
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