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Diana van Eyk's avatar

A recent example of this I experienced was when I posted on Substack that I wouldn't vote for either of the purple parties (Republicans or Democrats or their equivalents in other countries) who support genocide. I was told that I was letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I don't see anything good about a party that enables genocide with our tax dollars, and I can't get past that. I refuse to.

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Marianna Chambless's avatar

I agree with you, but what are we to do? I know I sound like a little old lady wringing her hands (I am a little old lady.), but I don't know what to do. I took heed of your newsletter of several days ago when you claimed that if we think we're going to impress any of the DNC or Congress or the President by voting for Jill Stein or Cornell West, we're sadly mistaken. That was, indeed, my reasoning for voting for one of them. I will still vote for Stein, because Trump is abhorrent, Harris is a phony, and I'm sick of the Democrats' hypocrisy, the never-ending wars, and most especially, the Israeli war against Palestinians which is the most corrupting to our souls, even though I was chided recently, by a Democrat, of course, for voting my principles instead of voting pragmatically for what was deemed best (by the Democratic establishment) for the society as a whole. In other words, I was satisfying my own ego at the expense of society's well-being. But the well-being is a delusion.

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