Topic: Politics & Elections
After thinking the matter over, I've decide that next Tuesday, I'll be voting for Johnson/Weld, the Libertarian Party presidential ticket. (Down ballot, I'll be voting Republican).
My earlier intention was to pass on a presidential vote: Hillary Clinton is horrific, Donald Trump equally so, and Gary Johnson has not particularly impressed me. But on second thought I've come to see some value in a vote for the latter. Not voting at all for president this year would a passive-aggressive form of protest. A vote for Johnson/Weld, bypassing the major party tickets, is an affirmative method of expressing my displeasure with the Dems and the GOP.
Now there are aspects of the Libertarian Party platform that I like, particularly on the economic side. (When it comes to foreign policy and national security, not so much.) But it must be admitted, I think, that many Libertarian positions—on immigration, on trade, on entitlements—are non-starters with the broad electorate. Still, the Libertarian ticket's on the ballot in all 50 states and it gives a disaffected conservative like me a means of registering my protest against the low, detestable state to which the major-party presidential candidates have reduced American politics.
If you're planning to vote for either Trump or Clinton, please remember that they aspire to the office once held by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, Eisenhower and Reagan. If that doesn't give you pause, it should.
