> This article seems relevant to this discuss:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/sometimes-the-chicken-kills-you-though

"One reason voters are often undecided is that they realize just how
unappetizing both of their options are. I think we should be sympathetic to
that, not view it as insane. These are people with standards, who find it
very difficult to accept “not literally eating turds” as their criterion
for what to have for dinner. I sympathize with that, and it’s bizarre that
some liberals consider this irrational. It reminds me of the contempt
expressed for Nader voters after 2000. George W. Bush and the Republican
Party subverted democracy
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/06/yes-bush-v-gore-did-steal-the-election.html>
 and illegitimately installed the candidate who lost
<https://theintercept.com/2018/11/10/democrats-should-remember-al-gore-won-florida-in-2000-but-lost-the-presidency-with-a-preemptive-surrender/>,
yet liberals seethed at Nader
<https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/movies/31nade.html>, a candidate who
only ran, and only got votes, because the Democratic Party was so
disappointing that progressive voters felt politically homeless. To get
angry at the undecided or third party voters, is to miss the far more
important fact that *for some reason, large swaths of people in the country
do not seem at all interested in the chicken. "*

Erik

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