--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> I really think leftists have no business commenting
> on the relative
> merits/demerits of DP/RP candidates for president.
> Such comments almost
> inevitably degenerate into obscurely grounded
> _personal_ reactions to
> _pesonal_ attributes of the candidates. There is no
> principled ground
> for leftists to prefer or opose this or that
> candidate. The argument is
> over whether Obama's charisma is real or faked; over
> whether HRC is
> likable or not likable (and the latter _always_
> exhibits distressing
> elements of sexism}. They are all war criminals.
> Their personalit traits
> are irrelevant.
>
> And we can't affect the election. So we are only
> talking to one another
> with the same relationship to reality as a quarrel
> in a bar over Cubs vs
> White Sox.
[WS:] That is faulty logic. Even we accept the premise that candidates make little difference, that difference, no matter how little it is, can be accomplished at no cost whatsover to individual voters, as one is not required to give up anything to vote. So the calculation is quite simple: No voting = cost:0 gain:0 net balance: 0 Voting Democract = cost:0 gain:little net balance: little gain.
Wojtek
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