[Ask the Gulch] I am leaning toward not voting for any presidential candidate. Am I justified?
Posted by rbroberg 8 years, 10 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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Bullying often takes on more forms than many people realize and you don't always have to be physically abused to be a victim. To me...comments like "Lying Ted" and "Little Marco" are entirely inconsistent with gentlemanly conduct, leaning more toward bullying than debating, and have done little to win me over as one of Trump's supporters.
I still have to wonder, however, where we would be, now, if Ted Cruz had won the nomination...
Sure, he is a brash New Yorker, and a tough customer to negotiate deals with, but what evidence is there that he is anything like the bullies who beat up kids in school?
Donald Trump is more like the guy i want to protect me against bullies and cheats, the guy I want to along bring with me to a confrontation, the guy I want to represent me in an argument, the guy I want to hire to fight for my company, ... and maybe the best guy around to defend my country against external threats (both diplomatic and military).
He's a brash New Yorker a tough customer to deal with (if you're on the other side of the table), but I've seen no evidence whatsoever that he is the type of guy who starts fights or picks on pipsqueaks who leave him alone. there is ZERO evidence that Donald Trump is the type who initiates force as a method of winning what he wants.
Hillary will replace it with a "single-payer" system and even more Federal control.
I never said Trump's proposed replacement is perfect, but it's a Hell of a lot better than either Obamacare or Hillary's single-payer monopoly.
In fact, there is good chance that "Trumpcare" would be even better than the mess that we had in prior years, when corrupt state legislatures could outlaw all interstate competition and employers could dictated what insurance plans their employees are allowed to buy.
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Before I was concealed carry, such was where I was during the 90s when this dude approached talking crazy stuff.
Then he spotted my officially deemed illegal since the 80s big oak prison baton in the trunk still kept there for emergencies..
He visibly started to shake and walked away.
Maybe he thought I was a loan shark for the Sopranos.
The only choice vote the best and ---- the rest.
A vote for The Donald is to protect the Constitution from the fascist hag's Supreme Court appointees, from a make Merkel blush flood of unvetted Muslim refugees, to protect my coal miner stepson (also his wife and 3 kids) and to keep his employer from laying off more workers and all of the USA and its battered economy from the best corrupt president money can bribe via the Clinton Crime Cartel Foundation.
- massive tax reduction (and simplification)
- cancel all unconstitutional executive actions
- impose term limits on Congress (via Amendment)
- a hiring freeze on federal employees (to reduce it by attrition)
- ban bureaucrats and congressional staffers from lobbying (for 5 years)
-reduce the number of federal regulations by at least half.
also:
- lift restrictions on energy production and infrastructure (e.g. pipelines)
- cancel payments to U. N. “climate change” funds, and use the money ofr clean water and environmental cleanup
- renegotiate NAFTA and TPP to insure free trade (both ways)
- end Federal involvement in education
- protect Second Amendment rights of the individual
-bring American troops home from places like Belgium, Japan, and Baghdad.
and:
- repeal the “Affordable Care Act” (Obamacare)
- allow citizens to purchase insurance across state lines
-allow tax-deductible Health Savings accounts
- cut red tape at FDA (especially for approval of life-saving drugs)
-allow veterans to receive private treatment when VA fails to provide it
Most libertarians favor all or most of the above.
Gary Johnson proposes many of the above.
Hillary Clinton opposes ALL of the above.
Donald Trump has proposed and promised ALL of the above.
(Yes, this list was compiled from Trump’s “contract” in Gettysburg, but a lot of it sounds like Johnson.)
Unfortunately, there are some whose thought processes are so prejudiced by their visceral dislike for the man, that they refuse to even consider what a Trump Presidency would actually be like! Comparisons with Hitler and Brownshirts are utterly ludicrous — except that Hillary Clinton's White House would be far more fascist (and far more dangerous) than Donald Trump's could ever be. Furthermore, a Clinton Administration is certain to increase foreign military interventions and risk nuclear war, while curbing free speech, freedom of association, and free enterprise at home.
Lest we forget, the word “liberal” no longer has anything to do with LIBERTY, while the word “conservative” increasingly refers to conserving individual rights and insisting that the Constitution is meant to restrict Federal powers.
As for myself, I will probably cast my vote for Gary Johnson once again -- but this time it will be largely because I am disenfranchised via the corrupt winner-takes-all system that prevents citizens in my Congressional District from choosing our own Presidential Elector (who would most likely have been a Trump elector, had the politicians in Albany not stolen our vote!).
N.B. Voting for Gary johnson will also help the LP to receive Federal funds -- which is hardly a "libertarian" reason!
All I know, for sure, is that, with Trump, I may still retain the opportunity to improve things, four years from now. With Clinton...
In this election, either Hillary or Trump will be the next president. There are no other realistic choices. We get one or the other. So pick the one who will do the job of president better for the next 4 years.
In this election its either a crooked career politician, and a businessman who can offer some change from the status quo based on his success in business. We have already tried the career politicians, and how has that worked? Time for something new.
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