I’m not a huge fan of Bill Whittle, but he makes an interesting case. He doesn’t make it as strongly as I would, but he approaches it from a couple interesting directions I guess I’ve always just taken for granted.

At the end of the day, the “Lesser of two evils” argument is, in my mind, a tool liberals are using to drive a wedge between conservatives and their votes. Nobody nowhere has ever answered the question “How does not voting fix anything?” with any honesty. The ONLY reason not to vote is ignorance and petulance. I can accept petulance, I do it myself quite often, but don’t pretend that not voting gives you some moral high ground, because it does not, and don’t pretend that “if enough people don’t vote it will send a message” because the message it sends is “I’m stupid, and bad at math” Pascal, always kinder and gentler than I am, says the same thing here as well.

Don’t care to vote because you don’t care what happens to this country and the people in it? that’s fine, have the balls to be honest about it and SAY THAT. Everything else is an excuse, and not a very good one. Think precipitating a revolution is a great idea? Think this will end in a “new American Republic”? Think you’re up to that? You might want to read this.

And to anyone who is enamored of the lie that incrementalism doesn’t work, I give you the Concealed Carry Timeline.