corpse - city of R’lyeh , and as far as I know neither of these are US territory . Still , his bid for the White House has gotten further than most other imaginary candidacies , and I ’ve long thought that the secret behind that success is Cthulhu ’s campaign slogan : “ Why settle for the lesser evil ? ” The reason that this slogan reliably elicits laughter , in turn , is that the entire rhetoric of presidential politics in the United States for decades now has fixated on the claim that one party ’s pet stooge wo n’t do anything quite as appalling as the other side ’s will , even though they all support the same policies and are bought and sold by the same corrupt interests .