"My vote doesn't matter," he says. But Jonah Goldberg still won't vote for Trump.
An individual's choice whether or how to vote makes no difference, at all.
What matters, of course, are the choices of large numbers.
An interesting point is that he uses the insignificance of the individual vote as a premise in an argument against voting for the clearly preferable lesser evil in case the candidates are all evil.
During a panel Q&A, a passenger on the cruise made a strong case for voting Trump.
He ably argued that we know Hillary will be terrible, while we can only suspect Trump will be.
Trump will probably do some things conservatives will like — Supreme Court appointments, etc. — while we know for a fact Hillary will not.
And here’s what I said: I agree.
If the election were a perfect tie, and the vote fell to me and me alone, I’d probably vote for none other than Donald Trump for precisely these reasons.
The questioner declared victory, and many in the audience applauded.
And then I said, “But I will never vote for Donald Trump.”
My vote won’t decide the election.
And I am not bound by hypotheticals like that.
But that raises the question how does somebody qualify as not an evil at all, but a positive good?
Must we refuse to cast our meaningless votes except when it's a choice between saints?
On the other hand, I have been tempted by the idea of sitting this one out, myself.
PS, his push comes to shove hypothetical vote for Il Duce indicates, I think, that for a national security conservative he is seriously undervaluing that Trump as foreign policy leader is much more dangerous than Hillary.
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