“You’re wasting your vote,” people have told me, when I reveal that I will be pulling the lever for Brian Carroll, the candidate for president of the American Solidarity Party in the upcoming election. They urge me to join them in ousting President Donald Trump or defeating former Vice President Joe Biden and remind me that all candidates are imperfect and that the perfect must not become the enemy of the common good.
I concede that the common good calls for a presumption in favor of a plausible prospect. Yet, as a Catholic aiming to bring to bear the Catholic Church’s social and moral teachings on my vote, I cannot vote for either of the major parties’ candidates. Why not? At what point does imperfect become unacceptable?
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