{"id":6259,"date":"2016-09-01T05:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/01\/avoid-lesser-of-two-evils\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T05:05:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:05:14","slug":"avoid-lesser-of-two-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/01\/avoid-lesser-of-two-evils\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid ‘Lesser of Two Evils’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you say that Trump is the 'lesser of two evils,' you invite the riposte:  why vote for anyone who is evil?  Say this instead: "Despite Trump's manifest negatives, he is better than Hillary."  And then go on to explain why he is better.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Politics here below is not about Good versus Evil.  It is not so Manichean as all that.  Politics here below is about better and worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you say that Trump is the 'lesser of two evils,' you invite the riposte:  why vote for anyone who is evil?  Say this instead: "Despite Trump's manifest negatives, he is better than Hillary."  And then go on to explain why he is better.   Politics here below is not about Good versus Evil.  It … Continue reading “Avoid ‘Lesser of Two Evils’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}