{"id":5216,"date":"2023-01-07T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2023-01-07T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:06:54","slug":"lesser-of-two-evils-or-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5216","title":{"rendered":"LESSER OF TWO EVILS &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR THREE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In America, with our freedom to vote, we may have to choose between &#8220;the lesser of two evils&#8221; sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That phrase is often used to just complain that there is not a perfect, or ideal, candidate to vote for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a third evil in every election&#8212;usually greater that the greater of the two evils on the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third evil, the greater evil than the other two, is not voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relinquishing the right to vote gives up any legitimate right to complain, to constitutionally &#8220;redress grievances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In America, with our freedom to vote, we may have to choose between &#8220;the lesser of two evils&#8221; sometimes. That phrase is often used to just complain that there is not a perfect, or ideal, candidate to vote for. But there is a third evil in every election&#8212;usually greater that the greater of the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}