{"id":32264,"date":"2016-02-25T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32264"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:11:02","slug":"dont-vote-for-either-donald-or-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32264","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Vote For Either Donald Or Hillary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Rohnert Park, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 25, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>The following article represents the paucity of thinking<br \/>\namong most contemporary political pundits:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/02\/24\/ill-take-hillary-clinton-over-donald-trump\/\">http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/02\/24\/ill-take-hillary-clinton-over-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author presents a false choice and goes on to justify<br \/>\nhis limited perspective by saying he would choose to vote<br \/>\nfor Hillary Clinton because Trump is worse.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;lesser of two evils&#8221; mentality is the reason we find<br \/>\nourselves in our current mess.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties are profoundly corrupt and no leader can<br \/>\nsave them at this time. And the fact that they keep<br \/>\ngenerating such weak candidates to lead them in the<br \/>\npresidential election each year is only part of the reason<br \/>\nwhy they are pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the above dilemma is to eschew voting\u00a0for either Hillary or Trump, i. e. avoid voting Republican\u00a0or Democratic. Period! End of sentence! Done!<\/p>\n<p>How about folks selecting the person and the party they\u00a0truly want? I know: what a concept!?!<\/p>\n<p>Most countries have many, many parties to pick from and\u00a0survive despite&#8212;or because&#8211;of such an approach.<\/p>\n<p>What is particularly discouraging about the author&#8217;s position is that it comes from an erstwhile conservative, someone who is supposed to believe in competition and business innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Did it not somehow enter the guy&#8217;s brain to start his own<br \/>\nparty? Is he really a conservative or just someone who<br \/>\nhas a false consciousness that allows him to think that by<br \/>\nadopting the Republican label, he can skip the critical<br \/>\nthinking required to deal with complex problems?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the answer to that question, the answer to the<br \/>\nproblem he describes is really quite simple: avoid voting<br \/>\nfor either of the two evil people presented and vote for<br \/>\nsomeone else. Vote for one of the many current third-party<br \/>\ncandidates on the ballot and distance yourself from any<br \/>\nassociation with the false left right paradigm coughed up<br \/>\nto the voters every four years.<\/p>\n<p>Say NO to the current system! Write-in the name of your<br \/>\nbest friend or none-of-the above. Stay home and boycott<br \/>\nthe election. Call your friends and tell them to do the same!<\/p>\n<p>But if none of that resonates with you, then just go out<br \/>\nand create your own party: &#8220;find the niche and fill it&#8221; like<br \/>\na true (conservative) business person!<\/p>\n<p>So what if that leaves the White House in the hands of<br \/>\nsomeone you hate like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.<br \/>\nBig deal: that&#8217;s what you get anyway so why bother<br \/>\nwasting your valuable time and energy on someone you<br \/>\nknow is going to lose despite your efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The best example of that this year is Bernie Sanders.<br \/>\nBernie is adored by his millions of followers. Yet it has<br \/>\nbeen crystal clear for a very long time that he was never<br \/>\ngoing to get the Democratic nomination. Besides the<br \/>\nfact that he isn&#8217;t even a Democrat, Sanders had too many<br \/>\nbarriers to overcome just to defeat Hillary much less the<br \/>\nRepublican choice in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>So very decent, caring folks knocked themselves out for<br \/>\nmonths and are now faced with the grim reality that in a<br \/>\nfew days it will be all over. What a total waste to make<br \/>\nsome sort of statement that they care and that they at<br \/>\nleast &#8220;tried!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To that I say: Bullshit! You fooled yourself. You were<br \/>\neither too deluded or too lazy to do what it takes to change<br \/>\nthings in a way consistent with your authentic self.<\/p>\n<p>Now these folks will be stuck with the corrupt, baggage-<br \/>\nridden Hillary Clinton as their choice. Her only &#8220;legitimate&#8221;<br \/>\nclaim for the job is that it is time for a woman to have a<br \/>\nshot at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you are down with that, she presents such a<br \/>\npathetic pick that many will decide to stay home in<br \/>\nfrustration rather than hold their nose and vote for her.<\/p>\n<p>How sad. I invite everyone to read your history books<br \/>\nand remember a guy named Lincoln whom many label<br \/>\nas the best President of all. He was the nominee of the<br \/>\nnewly formed Republican Party that started only a few<br \/>\nyears earlier in Ripon, Wisconsin. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow: who knew? Well, a few of us did. And a few of<br \/>\nus have spent years in the wilderness praying that enough<br \/>\nAmericans would wake up and see how bad things are in |our political process.<\/p>\n<p>In a bizarre fashion, this was the year that happened.<br \/>\nThe Tea Party wing has captured a big part of the<br \/>\nRepublican Party so that their nominee will not be a true<br \/>\nRepublican. Similarly, The Occupy Wall Street wing has<br \/>\ncaptured a big chunk of the Democratic vote although<br \/>\nwill likely lack the same level of success.<\/p>\n<p>So we have two third parties kinda running against each<br \/>\nother without them having formal status and being stuck<br \/>\nwith the corrupt, old label they pour their new wine into.<\/p>\n<p>Again, very sad and a waste of energy. How much more<br \/>\nsatisfying to work for something you truly believe in. How<br \/>\nmuch more intelligent to create an entity you believe in<br \/>\nthat reflects your values rather than the values attached<br \/>\nto an entity many find abhorrent.<\/p>\n<p>That is what Webster Tarpley has done with his Tax Wall<br \/>\nStreet Party. They are not going to win any elections in<br \/>\nthe near future but have the satisfaction of being true to<br \/>\ntheir values. <a href=\"http:\/\/twsp.us\/\">http:\/\/twsp.us\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I will end this little lecture by repeating myself: please<br \/>\nget off your butt; stop complaining about having to vote<br \/>\nfor the lesser-of-two-evils; and work to create something<br \/>\nthat is the better-of-two goods so the country has a choice they can be proud of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=122523\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=122523<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/02\/24\/political-science-professor-odds-of-president-trump-range-between-97-and-99\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/02\/24\/political-science-professor-odds-of-president-trump-range-between-97-and-99\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ny-times-columnist-jokes-about-assassination-attempt-ending-trumps-campaign\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ny-times-columnist-jokes-about-assassination-attempt-ending-trumps-campaign\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}