[quote=@Penny] Well that is already true. At the end of this contract I'm going to make a move to a bluer state, where people spend less time beseeching God to smite the gays, liberals and Mexicans.[/quote] They literally just exchange it for white people. It's 0% better and 3000% more smug. Good luck with all of that. [quote]If that is true, then don't they bear the moral responsibility for that choice? I certainly believe they [do]. There are utilitarian reasons for voting for people you find personally distasteful, lesser of the two evils stuff, but it hardly absolves you of your moral responsibility. [/quote] There we go again, dictating the morality of society itself. No. You're responsible for yourself and Slick Willy is responsible for himself and he doesn't stop and check whether it's okay with you before he fondles an intern. You set your own rules, and if you're not comfortable voting for a guy who does that to basically every woman he meets -- GREAT! Good for you, you're a good person. If you preach all that same stuff, but then still endorse the guy -- well NOW you've got a problem, because that would be pretty intensely hypocritical. And lastly if you run around judging everybody by your own standards, essentially meting out your own moral sentences on everyday people because of what their politician did, you're acting like your own personal atheistic Spanish Inquisition and NOOOOOOOOBODY likes the Spanish Inquisition. What is the point of that? Feeling superior to others while changing precisely nothing? In short holding yourself to the highest standard is laudable. I [i]sincerely like[/i] the fact that you're even asking these questions. Holding [i]others[/i] to that standard is pretty uncool/unfair/nonproductive/jerk-like, though. But it's your call. You get to be that person if you want.