#lesser evil

We'd believe that you truly consider the Democratic Party the lesser evil if there were more of you working to change what the party stands for, at local and national levels. If you were actively pushing candidates further and further to the left, throughout the election cycle and their terms of service as elected representatives. If you built systems of mutual aid that didn't end up getting swallowed up by the non-profit-industrial complex. If you compromised with the people to the left of you, instead of demanding that people to the left of you unite behind your preferred candidate.

But you don't.

We'd believe that you truly consider the Democratic Party the lesser evil if there weren't so many of you acting as cheerleaders for lesser evil. If there weren't so many of you telling people not to criticize lesser evil, that lesser evil is doing the best it can, that lesser evil is our best option and we better unite behind it or we're to blame for the greater evil, that we can all go back to brunch once lesser evil is temporarily back in power, .

But you do.

“And if the Vaks don’t wish to be friends to the Nikardun?” The Benevolent’s smile faded.

“We would consider such a rejection to be an insult.”

Thrawn Ascendancy (Book I: Chaos Rising)

(Stolen from Bluesky.)