The Lesser-of-Two-Evils Blues

by Donald A. Smith, PhD

Using my lyrics and Suno.com for the music, I created this blues song about lesser-of-two-evilism in U.S. elections.


I’ve got the lesser of two evil blues.
Every four years, we’re forced to choose.
Our choice is between who’s less worse.
This broken system feels like a curse.

This year one’s a fascist, a conman, a liar, and a molester.
The other supports genocide and endless war. I detest her.
Oh, both sides serve the 1%.
It's the billionaires that they represent.

The Dems cheated Bernie in the primaries.
They seem even more pro-war than the GOP.
Clinton, Obama, and Biden were sellouts.
That Harris, who was anointed, will serve us, I strongly doubt.

Hey, I get it when people decide
they can't vote for a supporter of genocide.
But I get it, too, that allowing Trump to win
would be a lot worse: he's even more anti-Muslim.

And if Trump is elected, and they implement Project 2025,
Our rights, our democracy and our freedoms will nosedive.
Trump is vindictive, unstable, dim-witted, and autocratic.
He's promised to serve the billionaires who fund him, and Christian fanatics.

So, I’ve got the lesser of two evil blues,
Every four years, we’re forced to lose.
But I'll hold my nose and vote for the horrible Dem,
To save us from an even worse outcome, once again.

Other versions:

See too Something Ds and Rs can Agree On.

Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine

U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, since it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"

Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."

Other music:

America the Battleful (Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!)
We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The-Endless War Blues (different version)
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
The-Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.