"Lesser-of-two-evils-ism" is the greatest evil.
Dick Eastman
so that evil (i.e., cost, damage-inflicting potential)
is measured in negative numbers and good (i.e., societal benefit)
is ordered by the positives (substitute your own magnitudes)
then, sure as day,
"lesser-of-two-evils-ism" will dictate that you choose
Gore over Bush:
-1,666,014 > -1,666,023
(Gore) (Bush)
since Bush, with a higher negative number is the greater
of two evils.
Meanwhile you have given up choosing "the greater of the
five goods":
+7,751 > +7,688 > +7,686 > +7,310 > +7,020
(Buchanan) (Phillips) (Nader) (Browne) (Vos Savant)
"But those guys and Marilyn don't have a chance in hell, and
I'll throw my vote away going for any of them."
And that, Sucker, is where the Establishmentazzi have you by
the balls, because both Bush and Gore are puppets of the
same puppeteer (the CFR-Trilateralist-Bilderberg Global Plantation)
and each puppet is specifically designed to scare hell out of
targeted segments of the population so that they conclude exactly
as you have, that the "lesser of two evils" is the only rational
course, the only choice you dare make."* Gevalt!
Do yourself a favor--do us all a favor--share this with some
clueless farblondjet. Let's make sure that only evil people
vote for evil this time around.
Dick Eastman
Yakima
U.S.A.
Every man is responsible to every other man.
*May I offer an example from this morning?
Taking my 14-year-old daughter to school she switched on the
rock station and I heard a Gore campaign ad that accurately
attacked GWB as a favorer of the rich in Texas--all scary
and all true--all more death to the middle class. But then
what is the Gore solution? Only one is given. The minimum
wage.
I benefited from the minimum wage. Sure I did. As a fifty-two
year-old father of three, with a girl in college and a four-year
old to watch and a 14-year old with 5th Avenue tastes for designer
clothes (I wear St. Vincent de Paul, Good Will, Value Village,
and Salvation Army--where I also get all my books (that's why
my quotations are so dated), yet I have two masters degrees and
completed my prelims for the doctorate in economics at Texas A & M)
--AND THE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE LAST YEAR INCREASED MY PAY! Now
is there something wrong with that picture. And Gore is offering
to raise the minimum wage again for me. Should I be grateful?
Should I run to him as the "lesser of the two evils"? But what
about the real causes of the destruction of the middle classes?
(And it sure as hell is not new technology requiring mean and lean
corporations let me tell you.) Standard of living has to do with
industrial capital elevating the productivity of the worker so
that he can command more in the labor market--but the transnationals
that both Bush and Gore favor over the middle classes have sent
our industrial capital and our financial capital to China, Burma,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil and soon to communist Columbia and
North Viet Nam. Also the totally bogus anti-inflation policies of
the Federal Reserve has forced the middle class into debt and
bankruptcy and Salvation Army Stores stores and out of 30 percent
of the leisure they used to have, leisure they could have spent
raising their kids. The minimum wage affects mostly teenagers
(including the teen age kids of the rich) who aren't really worth
much until they have had some work experience. The minimum wage
is the sop thrown to the vultures and hyenas after the lion
is done feeding on the carcass of the self-supporting self-respecting
common man. The minimum wage also makes China look so much more
relatively attractive to the firm seeking to build a new plant.
And by the way: Clinton/Gore are against American cigarette
companies and want to bankrupt them, right? Well, China is the
biggest cigarette producer in the world and they are seeking
to switch that giant industry to exports to save them the
massive medical bills all that tobacco is causing them. China
Bill is just helping them transition to a better future, by
setting things up for China to replace domestic American supply
of that commodity.
And guess what? Suddenly the abortion drug RU-486 is on the
market--like a flash--with unprecedented little testing. And
who makes and who will supply RU-486. RU-486 is exclusively
produced by the Hua Lian Pharmaceutical Co. (How many of you
bastards are now going to go out and invest in Hua Lian?),
a Shanghai, China firm owned by the Peoples Liberation Army.
And it turns out that when a woman is "illegally pregnant" in
China armed police come, break in the door and abduct the
woman and force RU-486 into her very own private body.
(Are you listening, you who argue abortion from "choice?")
"Lesser-of-two-evils-ism" is the greatest evil.
Vote the greater good or don't vote at all.
Let evil vote evil.
(Or do you fear that the evil might catch you voting
for the good, my countryman?)
Dick Eastman
Yakima
U.S.A.
Every man is responsible to every other man.