A bad option doesn’t become a good option when a terrible option is present.
why would you not choose the good option regardless? This makes no sense. I mean if good is not an option and its between bad and terrible I will take bad. Like if I break in the woods and can’t get to a hospital for surgery I rather have an impromtu splint than impromtu amputation.
I didn’t say that I won’t choose the better (less terrible) option.
Less bad is still bad, but preferable to worse.
First past the post has entered the chat
I have no idea about what this means. Would you like to explain?
Voting system where you only get to vote for a single candidate on the ballot. Basically always means people will vote for the “least worst” candidate
Thank you. I misinterpreted ‘post’ as social media posts.
Oh lol, that’s quite funny
I literally thought it was social media too. I’ve never heard the political side and I’m an American in my 40s.
First past the post is a method of voting, wherein voters mark one candidate as their favoriite, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a plurality) is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a majority).
This forces the voter to strategize and vote for what they think is the ‘least worst’ candidate that has a chance to receive the most choices, rather than their favorite candidate. It’s therefore probably one of the worst form of election, as it encourages status quo, gerrymandering, and voting based on popularity rather than ideas and programs.
For a more democratic electoral system, see for example single transferable vote.
Less bad is still bad.
If exactly one of the bad options will come to pass anyway though, and you get to influence which one, why wouldn’t you opt for less bad?
It also usually means you have a better chance of good in the future.
The sources of this post are usually the situations where the options are artificially limited, which are infuriating.
Maybe I should stop add ‘the’ into my sentence…
Your thought-compressing skill is much better than mine.
Binary thinking is what got us where we are in politics.
For my work, we sometimes use “don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough,” but at this point in time your framing seems particularly apt.
I’ve heard it referred to as “The worst negates the bad” fallacy.
Tell that to the US Democrats.
What?
They kept running on, “we’re not Trump!” instead of much of anything good to actually promise their constituents.
As the post says: A bad option doesn’t become a good option when terrible is present.
Do you really think they were campaigning on no issues and only the fact they werent trump?
No, but they kept saying it, which helped bury their other messaging. Given how insanely uninformed most voters are, what message do you think most of them got? Especially with the pile of lies from Trump and other Republicans clouding things up?
I can’t say what messages uninformed people of the public got. I’m can only comment on what I saw democrat politicans saying in their speeches and posts and how it doesnt align with what you say.
Personally i think “not trump” is a perfectly fine platform to run on and any reasonable voter shouldnt find that to be a hard choice but dems decided to campaign on normal stuff like cost of living and economics.
