SOMEONE WORSE
(In response to Carlos Alfaro’s Feb. 27 column “A case for voter abstinence.”)
Carlos Alfaro told readers that it is completely fine to abstain from voting and blames people who did vote, claiming that they chose to settle on whoever is "better than the last guy" and that it is their fault that we have lost our freedom and accumulated great debt. He claimed that the last person voted into office turned his back on his principles, despite the fact a lot of the things he tried to get passed were eventually vetoed by people who opposed him.
Mr. Alfaro suggests that if we have no decent candidates for the presidency, we should abstain from voting; after all, if we "vote for the lesser of two evils, don't (we) still end up with evil?"
If we don't vote for the lesser of two "evils", we could wind up with an even greater one. Voters have enough control to at least sway the election toward the "least evil," and I'd much rather have that than let the worse candidates win.
Vote. Vote for the candidate you can favor most, because otherwise, someone worse might just win.
Brandon Ortega
Film and Media Studies Undergraduate
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