Jack

Being complicit in making the system more evil is fine for people who vote for the Ds; but if the Ds want the votes of the 41% of people who didn't vote (some because they won't cross ethical lines like voting for a pro-genocide, pro-omnicide, pro-capilatist party), then they need a different argument than "vote for the lesser evil again bro", because that didn't work against W and worked only a third of the time against Turmp. The Ds need to either give better reasons for voting for them, or they need to stop being a pro-genocide, pro-climate cascade, pro-capitalist party.

The UK also has a FPTF voting system, yet the Lib Dems won enough votes in the past to form a coalition, and currently the 5th biggest party in parliament (Reform) is leading the polls, and the 8th biggest (Greens) is often-times polling in 2nd place. Even if you might not win the next election, you can help build something that gets the "only-ever-vote-for-1-of-the-2-leading-horses" people to also vote for it after that.

Some people will never vote for parties that cross ethical lines like genocide, omnicidal climate change, capitalism, oligarchy... For these people the lesser-evil is still way too evil.

“It is infinitely better to vote for freedom and fail than to vote for slavery and succeed.” - Eugene V. Debs, Appeal to Reason, 1900-10-13.

“Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.” - Eugene V. Debs, The Socialist Party and the Working Class 1904-09-01

Maybe they do - which is why W and Trump got re-elected.

"Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

When the rich kids have an equal chance of dying in oil wars, there won’t be so many oil wars.

Are you sure? Considering anthropogenic climate change cascades, I highly doubt the rich care about their kids.

Think of it like a trolley problem:

• pull the R lever: more rape, fascism, genocide, omnicide, good chance your team wins;
• pull the D lever: more oligarchy, genocide, with slightly slower omnicide, good chance your team wins;
• pull the l, S, or G lever: reverse anthropogenic climate change, create an ethical economic system, sanction genocidal regimes, low chance your ideas win now - maybe later tho;
• don't pull any lever: let the other 58.63% who vote, decide.

Edit: corrected %.

People who won't vote for the Democrats don't necessarily see the world the same way as people who do vote D. Really go have a look at https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020

There are ethical lines some people actually won't cross, e.g. voting for the Ds who make anthropogenic climate change worse and so are causing a mass extinction, sell weapons to people actively committing a genocide, further an economic system that rewards narcissistic sociopaths and punishes ethical people, ...

Go look at the linked graph above again. You may not agree, but understand that there are people who do, and to get these people to vote for the Ds, you need to convince them why voting for omnicidal, genocidal, greedy sociopaths is the right thing to do. The "lesser evil" argument doesn't work on them, because if you look at the linked graph above and compare the distances between the parties, and understand there are ethical lines between the Ds and leftists/socialists/Greens/etc. they won't cross; then it means vastly better arguments need to be put forth. Yes the Rs are psychopaths and openly racist, but compared to the slightly less (compare the distances on the graph) sociopathic Ds, then

“It is infinitely better to vote for freedom and fail than to vote for slavery and succeed.” - Eugene V. Debs, Appeal to Reason, 1900-10-13.

“Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.” - Eugene V. Debs, The Socialist Party and the Working Class 1904-09-01

If there are no ethical options, then activity making the world more evil isn't something these people will do.

If you decide not buy the omnicidal product because palm oil is an ingredient, that's good.

Unfortunately only a tiny fraction of people are ethical. The rest are not just unknowingly buying products containing palm oil, but are actively choosing to speed-run us towards a mass-extinction event.

car is something I’ll never go without again

Anthropogenic climate change cascade says "Good luck".

“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans.

So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," - Jesus, according to Luke 6:27

"If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." - Jesus, according to Matthew 5:39

by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible

"Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor" Mark 10:21

"You cannot serve both God and money." Luke 16:13

"If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39

"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," Luke 6:27