{"id":5413,"date":"2012-10-24T05:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2012-10-24T05:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:29:27","slug":"bill-whittle-on-lesser-of-two-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5413","title":{"rendered":"Bill Whittle on Lesser of Two Evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5v7QQ5vQWg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Bill Whittle, but he makes an interesting case. He doesn&#8217;t make it as strongly as I would, but he approaches it from a couple interesting directions I guess I&#8217;ve always just taken for granted. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, the &#8220;Lesser of two evils&#8221; 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 &#8220;How does not voting fix anything?&#8221; 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&#8217;t pretend that not voting gives you some moral high ground, because it does not, and don&#8217;t pretend that &#8220;if enough people don&#8217;t vote it will send a message&#8221; because the message it sends is &#8220;I&#8217;m stupid, and bad at math&#8221; Pascal, always kinder and gentler than I am, says the same thing <a href=\"http:\/\/pascalfervor.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/fools-think-their-vote-is-worthless.html#comment-form\">here<\/a> as well. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t care to vote because you don&#8217;t care what happens to this country and the people in it? that&#8217;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 &#8220;new American Republic&#8221;?  Think you&#8217;re up to that? You might want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/olegvolk.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/the-mis-directed-fetish-of-marksmanship\/\">this. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to anyone who is enamored of the lie that incrementalism doesn&#8217;t work, I give you the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastshooters.com\/vbulletin\/threads\/86347-Concealed-Carry-Timeline\">Concealed Carry Timeline. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Bill Whittle, but he makes an interesting case. He doesn&#8217;t make it as strongly as I would, but he approaches it from a couple interesting directions I guess I&#8217;ve always just taken for granted. At the end of the day, the &#8220;Lesser of two evils&#8221; argument is, in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}