Are We Participating or Posing?

A friend sent me an article titled: The Lesser of Two Evils Con Game, by Tyler Durden.  (Here's a link to the complete article)

I'm thinking it's the hysterical rant of a furious Paulist...who is enraged at Rand Paul's endorsement of Mitt Romney. The author considers the words "traitor" and "betrayal" appropriate aspersions in the circumstances.

Now, while I can understand his frustration with the status quo, and the continuing pretenses of the totally annoying and reprobate Republican Party, there really isn't much one can say in response to rabid Ron Paulites. We've all pretty much had that discussion, like, a thousand times.

Nonetheless, there are two points I'd like to counter:

1) He writes: “A refusal to vote, or a vote for a third party, is not a vote for Obama, or a vote for Romney, but a vote against the charade.”

This is false. A refusal to vote, or a vote for a third party...by a conservative, libertarian, tea partier, or liberty patriot...is, in fact, without a doubt, and absolutely, a vote for Obama, no matter how one spins it in one’s mind. The facts on the ground confirm it. Utopian Purist fantasies, no matter who pipe-dreams them, are still fantastic.

George Orwell put it this way, "Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist." (said during WWII) Allow me to make the obvious, logical connection: If you don't support the fight against the enemy, you support the enemy. If you don't support the candidate against the Enemy, you support the Enemy.

Can it possibly be clearer than that? Regardless of how pissed you are?

Or, as Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Like refuse to vote or throw their votes away!

2) The second point is the very premise of the piece, that both Øbama and Romney are "evil".

"The lesser of the two evils” is merely a rhetorical turn of phrase, not an actual description of both people running for office.

I submit that if not Øbama personally, at the very least his ideology has been proved to be evil by the plain facts of history. So, to describe the Democrat candidate—insofar as he and his party endorse what is demonstrably an evil ideology—as evil, is, I believe, a fair assessment.

However, Romney simply cannot be fairly or honestly defined as “evil”.  By all accounts he is a decent, God-fearing, America-loving, family man. He may not be as far to the right as I am, but he is certainly not evil by any accepted standard. And the simple fact is, to vote for him is to vote AGAINST evil in the most effective way: By giving your vote to a person that actually has a chance of defeating the real evil staring us in the face in this election, in the person of Barrack Obama and his coterie of  criminals.

Posing as “too pure” to vote for a real person—with faults & shortcomings—instead of a perfect idealized one, with a perfect ideology, and a perfect record, while allowing evil to prosper is just that: a pose; a self-righteous and self-aggrandizing one. And it makes one a collaborator with and an accessory to evil. *

But if one actually wants to save America, I'm thinking maybe a little more work is required. You know,  the "party-work" almost no Libertarian/Conservative/Anti-collectivist likes doing. Yeah, I mean just what it sounds like I mean: working within the Republican Party, taking it over and making it over into the new face of the Tea Party/Liberty Patriots/Libertarian Conservatives.

It means all the standard organizing, fund-raising, precinct work, retail politics of the most basic, trench, repetitive, non-glamourous type. (I'm already tired just thinking about it.)

Look, if we want to FIX the system, we have to participate in the system. (Yes, even in contradiction to and defiance of my adorable Clair Wolfe.**)

I totally agree we need to tar and feather the RINOS...but we can't do that by voting for Ron Paul (or some other PURE & POINTLESS candidate) in all our high dudgeon and self-righteousness. All we can accomplish by doing that is lose elections and make the Republican Party even more irrelevant—and surrender the field of battle to the evil ideology of the Leftist Democrats, their sycophants & blood-suckers.

We can't win if we refuse to dirty our hands by getting involved. 

The Gunslinger

*Unless one's intention, I suppose, is to help evil win in order to mobilize good people to start the revolution—that one assumes the right side will win—and restore America. This is a pretty extreme strategy, but it does have it adherents. The question is, of course, will "The People" arise against evil? Will "The People" arise at all? Have they ever? If memory serves, it has usually been a dedicated, true-believing minority that has effected most political change in human history. You could look it up.

**who said, "America is at the awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system but too early to shoot the bastards." A quote I adore and want desperately to believe. But mostly so I don't have to do the soul-killing Party Work that appeals to me less than getting a root-canal.