Voting without retching: beyond the lesser of two evils.
Surprise!
This is an article from 1980, subtitled: What to do if you can't stand Reagan or Carter.
Once upon a time many Dems thought Carter was just as bad as Reagan. Hard to imagine with the wisdom of hindsight.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/voting-without-retching-lesser-of-beyond-the-two-evils-19801016
On August 19th of this year, George Wald, emeritus professor of biology at Harvard and a recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Medicine, wrote in a letter to the New York Times: "I have a suspicion approaching conviction that John Anderson's try for the presidency was invented by, or with the connivance of, the Trilateral Commission, to cut into the Democratic vote and so secure the election of Ronald Reagan." After much buttressing of this eccentric thesis, the professor concluded in the same terms: "I think John Anderson is the instrument designed by the Trilateral Commission to assure Reagan's election."
"Did you read that letter?" we asked Anderson.
Anderson rolled his eyes. "Oh my God! For a Nobel laureate! To write this preposterous....… I haven't even gone to a meeting for two or three years."
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