# Elections are about choosing the lesser evil

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-are-about-choosing-the-lesser-evil/1022731/70 "2025-09-05T17:39:57Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> I was replying to the OP question, which was a broad question on voting strategy in general.
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> There’s nothing in what I quoted nor in what I said that includes any of what you say.

No, not in your quotes, but there is a little thing called:

[![](https://i.imgflip.com/a57rjh.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/a57rjh.jpg)

In context, the OP is continuing a discussion that was about people who didn’t vote for the Democrats (abstaining, voting for Jill Stein, or outright voting for Trump to send the Dems a message):

> [@Has Democratic voter turnout basically hit a ceiling and can't go any higher?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-democratic-voter-turnout-basically-hit-a-ceiling-and-cant-go-any-higher/1022410/73):
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> Do you expect people to just constantly vote for shitty candidates just because the other side is shittier?
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> Why are the Democrats unable to put forward an actual good candidate/policy?

If all that you’re saying is that, in a ballot between Hitler wearing a fake mustache and Hitler wearing a sombrero, you’d abstain, flee, or fight - then fine, I doubt anyone here disagrees with you. But the conversation isn’t about spherical electoral candidates in a vacuum. In _context_, it’s about whether the Democrats are such shitty candidates that you may as well vote Trump or just throw away your vote, or whether that’s not the case _at all_.

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