The benefit of lawful evil to chaotic evil is they love winning so much they don’t really spend a lot of time judging each other. But lawful good and chaotic good have often survived their own personal lives and identities being tied to each strategy.

When you decide in the favor of one over the other, you’re telling them the strategy they’ve used to keep their own life afloat is worthless, not just that their tactic was shitty in a moment. I’ve watched that tear whole organizations/movements apart, more than once.

Which brings me back to today and folks sweating the decision of chaotic good to not back Joe Biden and be annoyed with Senator Sanders. All I’m gonna say is folks get to choose who they are in the field and which strategy they want to use to win.

But this isn’t just selfish people on the Sanders side or dummy soldiers on the Biden side. This is folks debating which strategies will win to meet this moment. That is deeply more complex than too progressive or too centrist. It’s how people structure a whole damn life.

Meanwhile Lawful to Chaotic evil is straight chillin in the corner laughing at the inability of lawful good to harness or respect chaotic good and vice versa.

Personally, I think there are pluses and deltas to all of us and none of our shit don’t stink enough not to be able to learn something from another approach. I have worked in institutions of Lawful Good my whole life being mostly opening up space for Chaotic good to push us.

But I chose Lawful Good type institutions to do it in. I am not an artist or writer or full-time organizer. So I know I have to watch my receptivity to Chaotic Good as much as I respect it. Because I am not it.

But I also know that in the absence of inside systems people there would be a lot more injustice. There are folks at the CDC right now who would satisfy so many of us by walking out and spreading allllll the tea.

Many of us would feel righteous about that and grateful and we would hail them as heroes. But a lot more people, A LOT IN ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE would die if they did that. So there is value for both. But we have little tolerance for each other. Often.

Which is all to say Electoral Politics isn’t gonna give us our freedom but it can make the soil softer to make the changes that do. But most, if not all the people we elect our inside game people. And it would serve us to remember that.

One last thing: Joe Biden and really our countries only hope against Chaotic Evil here is that over this election he proves he can make the soil softer.

And while I think it would be inauthentic to say he was invested in Chaotic Good, he HAS TO tie progressive recovery to Lawful Good. He has to show the places where the disaster of this moment has reshaped what he sees as lawful good.

This is not the man, many of us, will be excited for. But he has to show he can make the soil softer. Or it’s a wrap.

This right here. HARD agree.
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