[a character holds a lever connected to rails, on which a train is approaching fast]
A train is approaching fast…
Many people are tied to the tracks…
As a bystander, I can do only one thing in this current moment: flip a lever, which would send the train to another track where it would also kill people, but less of them
[next to another separate railway track, someone is trying to get the first character’s attention]
Hey you, over there, look!
There is a third track here!
It is not connected to the other tracks, but there are zero people tied to it, so if you do not choose to send the train on this third track right now you are an evil genocide enabling liberal
https://thebad.website/comic/third_track
This is almost a great analogy. The artist just needs to tie the third rail to the main track, and change the lever so that the third track is easily selectable.
We don’t have the means to select ranked choice voting though, and 3rd parties will never win until we do, by design.
3rd parties can, but Centrists don’t want them to. Centrists tell me that it’s super easy to win every election: We just need enough people to vote for them.
Of course, when it comes to voting for an actual anti-genocide candidate, suddently they don’t think that strategy will work.
And then add a few hundred people all pulling the lever in different directions. The reason the trolley is necessarily going to kill some people is because we keep putting up with the “kill less people” party instead of forcing them to take the “kill no people” track
Easily selectable just it goes slightly near a billionaire who is fine once it passes