“In electoral politics you are forced to choose between the two dominant political parties,” writes Joe Carter in United By Our Differences , today’s “On the Square” article.
Whether you are a neo-Marxist, a Great Society liberal, or a Clinton-esque centrist, a theocratic Dominionist, a Russell Kirk conservative, or a socially liberal libertarian, your choice of parties is limited to the Democrats or the Republicans. You may be choosing nothing more than the lesser of two evils—a Beelzebub rather than a Lucifer—but in making the choice you are banding together with others of varying degrees of unanimity.
This banding together, he argues, can be a good thing for a people so divided by everything else, including all their choices.
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