Political choices are never binary. There is usually a better independent candidate.
If people would drop their pompoms and vote for the best candidate, we’d have a lot fewer problems in this country.
By binary I meant that one is always making a qualitative (better or worse) comparison between one candidate and, in turn, each of the other possibilities. As for better independent candidates, I’ve been voting in Presidential elections since 1972 and I haven’t voted for a third-party candidate yet. (John Schmitz? Eugene McCarthy? John Anderson? Ross Perot? Ralph Nader? the Libertarians? No thanks.)