Great post. I think the closet we can come to this is electing Gary Johnson!

Each party pushes the government to benefit "their" supporters. Repubs have one set of supporters and dems have another. It's cronyism either way

What about the landslide sweep of both 2010 and 2012 when the R's ended up with significant control. The more R's that we get the less Congress seems willing to do to fix the damage!

I don't buy the line that they are going to "fix" things when we have the House, the Senate and the WH. It is already shaping up to be just a little more of the same old same old! I am beginning to believe that the Republican party is just Democrat lite!

So just give up and vote for evil.
Or buy avery big army.

Bernie or Hillary - no matter which one winds, we're still screwed.

Trump is the least worst choice to make, I fear.

Those "other choices" would not in fact be delivered if I voted for them. (Even a vote for one of the major party candidates has a vanishingly small chance of affecting the outcome.) Therefore, I don't really have them. They just want me to think I do.

Since in a free society people for the most part rule themselves, very little is required of a President to be fit to rule. His job would be largely to get the government out of our way. Here are some suggestions for a new President of no governing experience to cut huge swathes thru government during just his first day in office.

First he could immediately pardon all inmates in federal prisons convicted on victimless crimes charges. He could then order his Attorney General to not enforce any victimless crimes laws. There goes the cruel war on individuals who put things in their bodies which others disapprove of. Violent crime would be cut probably in half as would the "criminal justice" budget. Hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on now vastly overpriced prohibited substances would be available for more urgent uses.

Being the Commander in Chief, the new President could dismantle the economy-killing overseas Empire with a single command to bring all the overseas troops home and to shut down the 1,000 or so military bases in foreign countries. Say hello to peace and prosperity.

The new President could next pardon everyone imprisoned on violation of legal tender laws. Since legal tender laws are unconstitutional, he could order his Attorney General to no longer enforce these laws. Commodity based free market competing currencies would quickly emerge. There goes the Federal Reserve and the unbacked fiat dollar. Say goodbye to inflation.

Next the new President could pardon everyone imprisoned for using non FDA approved medical therapies and order his Attorney General to no longer prosecute such witch hunts. The foot-dragging FDA would wither away as life extension research exploded and competing private companies emerged to certify the safety and efficacy of new therapies.

Finally the new President could announce that he will refuse to spend any money allocated by Congress to federal agencies not specifically authorized in the Constitution. Say goodbye to a long list of unconstitutional alphabet agencies bossing us around.

Should Congress threaten to impeach the new President for showing more interest in the freedom and prosperity of Americans than in the interests of crony capitalists, he could exercise some of those powers which Congress foolishly gave the President and legally have Congress arrested and detained without due process. Congress is largely superfluous since all it does is pass laws, and there are already far too many laws and regulations crippling commerce and robbing productive people of their wealth.

All these freedom promoting actions could be taken care of in the new President's first morning in office. He would then be entitled to a very long vacation while leaving Americans to get busy rebuilding their lives and the national economy in an environment of individual liberty.

Bush got us into two wars for which we not benefit at all. Its true that Obama just kept them going and expanded them. I have had it with these external wars to "expand democracy", at least thats what they say

But most of it happened when he had the two houses of congress on his side (Obamacare, the various wars)

jdg, not referring to "you" personally in the above comments ;^)

Someone repeatedly makes the same mistake, continues to ignore the results of that action (which imposes force on and injures millions of people), and wants to do it again without taking any responsibility for the action. You call that rational? No, it isn't. And you aren't voting for the least of evils. you are voting for,one of two evils when you have other choices that are not evil.

Voting for the least of evils does not make you responsible for that evil. Read Spooner.

Who is Wiley Coyote?

When I see you in Atlantis, we'll compare notes and develop some recipes. Still think Venezuela is ready and waiting.

You are in an excellent location, Thor. I stopped brewing and sold all my gear 10+ years ago, then after moving to NZ I bought gear and started again. Sold it all again when I left NZ, and helped the buyer get started in home brewing in Auckland.
i will get started again when I get to Atlantis (or a facsimile thereof.)

I can help with that problem. I made beer like 20 years ago, and have since given away all my materials. Many of my friends brew, and I've thought about it again, but it is so easy to drop by my excellent local beer store, which has a fabulous diversity and selection, and will order me anything I want.

I started with some recipes in The Joy of Home Brewing and modified them. My best friend was a chef and we brewed beer almost every weekend for over a year. His cellar was full of our beer; we just couldn't drink fast enough;^)

If Bush hadn't been such a lying sack of slime, embarrassing America at every opportunity, pretending he was the decider, then Obama would never have had a chance to continue Bush's horrid policies (and admittedly add some horrid ones of his own;^)
Every president has been worse than the one before him since Eisenhower (with the arguable exception of Reagan and anyone who followed Carter had it easy;^)
(Note-this is a repost of an earlier comment with several spelling corrections.)

Agree, but we can't just sulk. We have to do the best we can. Trump is NOT the best we can, even from the field we are offered.

They sound awesome too.

Sounds like an interesting recipe. Have to look for it this weekend. Thanks. I think my best creations were a jamaican blue mountain coffee stout and a barleywine ale.

Just about any government action, except eliminating rules/government, is bad. This "bad" comes with a lot of other "good" in government reduction. Sort of like repeating "the lesser of the evils".