Re: Sad to read this
Ethin, here's an analogy for you.
Imagine, for a moment, that you're standing in front of two cages. The cage on the left is more like a steel box than a cage, with a little slot in its front big enough to stick your hand through. The cage on the right is wide open for the whole wide world to see. You know that in each cage is a dog; every few seconds, someone walks up beside you and reaches into one cage, or the other, or both, in order to try and pet one of the dogs.
Lots of people have stuck their hand into the cage on the left, but nobody has been hurt yet. Occasionally you can hear scuffling sounds from inside, and it's hard to know exactly what's going on in there. The dog sounds big, but that's about all you know. A few people have gone away frightened, but unhurt.
But the cage on the right is a different story. That dog is barking, snarling, slavering and snapping. It bites, or attempts to bite, almost everyone who tries to touch it, and it's drawn plenty of blood. You've been here for awhile, and this dog has, if anything, only gotten louder, angrier, more aggressive. It has showed no signs of calming down. Despite seeing this, people continue to put their hand through the bars of that cage.
This perfectly encapsulates the "known quantity" argument where it concerns Trump. We know he's a rabid dog. If you know a dog will bite you, or try to, why in the blue fuck would you want to try and pet it?
The dog on the left is the unknown quantity. Sure, you might be the unlucky one it decides to bite, but given that there isn't the same amount of raw bloodshed present in your time before the cages, it stands to reason that this dog, while not completely trustworthy, is far more trustworthy than the dog on the right.
Translation: Biden is an unknown, but he doesn't have anywhere near the negativity Trump has. He isn't perfect, and he isn't a wonderful choice, but he destroys Mr. Orange in the area of morality and common decency. I am not flat convinced that he will do everything right, and that's okay. Because even if I was only 1% convinced that Biden would do well (and really, it's quite a bit higher than that), I'm 0% convinced that Trump will, which makes the choice an easy one.
If this was a race between two lukewarm candidates, I'd agree with you. By all means, don't vote, don't bother. If neither side is all that dangerous, then what's the harm in not stopping one side or the other? But my argument is that Trump is so threatening and dangerous and divisive that he needs to be stopped. As I've said before, and will undoubtedly say again, I would exercise any legal means were I an American to vote for Biden purely to add my voice to the groundswell against Trump. It's not about endorsing Biden; it's about removing blabbermouth Don from office by the most expedient means necessary. My hope is that even if you're less than impressed by either candidate, you'll be able to see where I'm coming from here, and will recognize Trump as a great enough evil that he needs to be stopped. I won't bully you about this, since your single vote won't turn any tides, and neither would mine. But I think I'd have a hard time sleeping if I simply stood back and let this lunacy continue when I could have done something, however small, to arrest its momentum.
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