Monday, June 13, 2016

Balancing the Two Evils


For many voters in presidential elections, attempting to choose between the two major party nominees has long been compared to choosing between the lesser of two evils. Always before, conservatives have faced a choice in which both options were flawed, but one infinitely better, on both policy and character. Now, however, it’s not clear which of the two evils selected for 2016 is truly the lesser.

Both parties have nominated arrogant New York liberals who allow ambition to overshadow all else, including what will be best for the country. Both parties have nominated people who promise change, but who are the very embodiment of the political establishment and have for decades bought and sold other politicians, and have been bought and sold themselves. And both parties have nominated people who have between them literally dozens of major scandals already in the public record, and who are both facing either a current lawsuit or the prospect of a federal indictment. Lies and deceit follow both wherever they go. No wonder that both nominees are also the two most disliked major party presidential nominees in the history of polling.

One candidate brings with her decades of scandal and corruption in the political world; the other brings with him decades of scandal and corruption in the business world. The only meaningful difference between the two, then, is that one promises a different sort of corruption and incompetence from what we’re used to seeing in politics.

The search goes on to find the lesser of the two.

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