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I mean the guy is a straight laced professor of economics who wrote his thesis on the advantage of competition. He's not exactly a working class hero. However, it could have been way worse and anyone who can't see that just needs to look at the US to find out what happens when you don't vote for the lesser of two evils.
IMO anybody who promotes competition and antimonopoly is a working class hero.
"Competition" is not a working class interest. Solidarity is.
Yeah well Monopoly isn't solidarity, it's oppression, so fighting that is good in my book.
A liberal fights a monopoly by competition, so that no single capitalist gains more profits over the other capitalists.
A socialist fights a monopoly by socializing it and making it a utility that works to meet the needs of the population, eliminating the profit motive.
Lack of alternatives is always bad, the needs of the population are rarely homogeneous.
And the true enemy endorses monopoly, so I'm happy to call liberals my friends.
Sure, no problem with that, but they're not "working class heroes", which is what I reacted to in the first place.
Lesser of two evils, lesser of two intellects, lesser of two personalities, lesser of two qualifications, lesser of two accomplishments, we did all of that and then some. I'm happy for you all. I just wish we could have also rejected fascism.
Supporting lesser of two evils just gets you more and more evil, and eventually you get to Trump.
That phrase is aggressively fucking stupid.
Nothing is pure and virtue doesn't matter. And even if virtue did matter, when you decide not to choose you are just as culpable with the result when it is the worse evil.
You can't wash your hands if you had the power to act.
Where did I say that you shouldn't vote? Of course you should vote. That's a civic responsibility. I'm just rejecting the "lesser evil" argument. It's used to support and justify bad candidates, and it helps to move the Overton Window in a more evil direction. All of those "lesser evil" candidates helped pave the way for Trump.
People not voting to prevent him from winning got us Trump.
The implication that I believe you are missing is that all humans are to some degree evil, and that goes doubly so for the type of human that finds themselves working in the world of politics.
It's tongue-in-cheek, and that was very well known when the phrase originally came out.
The subtlety seems to have been lost over time.
Someone read that quote from The Witcher, not recognizing it was planted right at the beginning of a character arc of growth.
I think this is more like multiple paths that are all in the same narrow valley, if pollievre had won that would have led to a different path for sure