you can speak to a person's passionless utilitarian calculus all you want but if you are not able to truly inspire them, you cannot ensure they'll turn up.
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shaun
using "the other guy sucks!" as a voting tactic is bad both because 1) if you announce you're willing to vote for a bad candidate just because the other guy is worse, that's all you'll get & 2) it clearly doesn't work, as evidenced by how the worse parties win at least half of the time anyway
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