I'm not elgabogringo, and he should answer IMO, but I've voted for racists before so I will give you my own answer: Voting, particularly in the American 2-part

I'm not elgabogringo, and he should answer IMO, but I've voted for racists before so I will give you my own answer: Voting, particularly in the American 2-party system, is mainly about choosing the lesser of evils. Would it better to support a moderately racist candidate (keeping in mind most Americans are racist and you yourself probably are to a degree), or somebody utterly free of racist candidate convictions but who has an unshakable faith in military intervention abroad and whose ideas, if implemented, would lead to hundreds of thousands of noncombatants killed? What if a candidate was racist in her personal worldview, but at the same time supported the cessation of, and was running for an office with a significant impact on, the catastrophic, Nazi-genocide-equivalent "War on Drugs"? In other words, there are some things worse than racism, and other things equally bad. It's one variable in an extremely complex equation, and one that is also impossible to quantify.