# Elections are about choosing the lesser evil **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 4, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-are-about-choosing-the-lesser-evil/1022731 "2025-09-04T00:47:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-are-about-choosing-the-lesser-evil/1022731/2 "2025-09-04T01:43:10Z")
> [@CaveMike](#): > > I’ve come to the conclusion that I should always feel a little bit disappointed with my candidate, especially since I am on the edge of the political spectrum, but I am interested in hearing other perspectives. In the last forty years we’ve created a system of campaigning and candidate promotion where the option in viable candidates is almost always “the lesser of two evils”, and what it has gotten us is progressively worse candidates with often very little daylight between their effective policy positions (even as they harp on ‘culture wars’ nonsense), sliding inexorably away from government serving working class people and toward an increasingly authoritarian state. If “elections are about choosing the lesser evil” then maybe we need a bigger change than just a new slate of candidates mouthing variations of the same tired slogans and backed by the same corporate masters and dark money. How to get that change? I don’t know, but it’s not exactly a new problem: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/myEpap3TxVs/hqdefault.jpg "The Candidate What Do We Do Now") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEpap3TxVs) Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-are-about-choosing-the-lesser-evil/1022731)._