Beware the ‘lesser-of-two-evils’ trap

Beware the ‘lesser-of-two-evils’ trap: "The founders chose the lesser of two evils – because it led to the greater good. For them, the greater evil, worse than allowing slavery – which they realized would come to an end before too many decades – would have been to allow the disintegration of the United States of America to continue, to permit history’s greatest birth of liberty to be smothered in the cradle."

Good point. But there were also other options (i.e. North USA and South USA). Also, I don't think anyone can complain about the poor choices if they didn't first work to improve those choices (i.e. vote in primary, support their candidate, support good lower candidates that may one day be presidential candidates, etc).