The Enemy Of Better

 Imagine if you will, Graham Platner had an established history of liberally using the “n” word.  As a Black man, I would not be happy with him being elected.  I am however, also a human who routinely accepts things which are less than perfect rather than waiting indefinitely for perfection, 

In engineering, we are known to say that “Perfect is the enemy of good enough.”  I would suggest that it is reasonable to extend that to perfect is the enemy of better.  It is also true that perfection is not guaranteed.  You could choose to wait for perfection and find that the lifespan of the universe is not a long enough time for perfection to arrive.

Felon47 is an adjudicated rapist, a pedophile and a pedophile’s best friend.  He is also a cowardly draft dodger, an inveterate liar, a racist and is as ignorant of actual history as anyone I have ever met or observed.  He is also the person that Susan Collins has decided is worthy of her absolute support even when she (allegedly) disagrees with what he is doing or how he is doing it.

If Graham Platner had an established history of liberally using the “n” word, his opposition to Felon47 and his policies make me believe that he is better than Susan Collins.  If perfection was on the way and he was the only thing blocking it, I would have no trouble abandoning him.  If he was elected to the Senate, I would have no issue with voting in a better human in six years.

I get it.  I understand why women are uncomfortable with Platner.  We want to show up on election day and then not have to think about it for the next several years.  We want the election process to result in perfection but, that aint how it works.  I think Graham Platner is better - better than Susan Collins.  I think the things that she has enabled Felon47 to do are worse for women and minorities than anything Platner has done.

Some folks value their honor over their rights.  My guess is that works out better as a thought experiment than it does when applied to real life.  What Felon47 has been adjudicated to have done is worse than what Platner is alleged to have done.  I see no benefit to enabling the worse individual.