If you choose RC Cola, you get RC Cola. If picking a soft drink was like the elections, you wouldn't want to choose RC because you'd still get Pepsi or Coke and you'll just be throwing away your ability to influence it to be the one with the lower concentration of cyanide.

I suppose this take would be easy if you consider both of those examples to mean the exact same thing.

I’ll vote for a tree stump over a wannabe-dictator that’s also a rapist and a convicted felon.