the lesser of two evils

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. In November, I am not voting for the Lesser of Evils, I am voting for the best available candidate.

I think the lesser of two evils argument tends to convince voters to stay home. Why vote for evil if you can stay home and unclog and clean your toilet with a coathanger and your toothbrush?

I will vote for Clinton (or the Democratic Nominee) because the Republican nominee is a bigoted, racist, misogynist, narcissist (those are his best qualities), and the Libertarian candidate is a typical small government conservative who intends to shrink government until he can drown it in Grover Norquist's bathtub. (His broad libertarian leanings do not overcome this desire to end regulation on everything, especially businesses.) Jill Stein is not a bad candidate, and I would like to see the Green Party move into the mainstream, but in our two-party, winner-take-all system she will not draw more than 5% of the vote even in the most wildly unlikely scenario.

I'm a pragmatist, and we need someone who will hold chaos at bay until 2020, at least. Only a Democrat will do that.