Posted by
Allin Webster on Monday, November 03, 2008 1:41:06 PM
So tomorrow we elect the leader of the free world for the next four years. We "must" choose between very liberal and extremely liberal.
Why is it that everyone accepts this methodology? Why is a vote for the third party candidate ALWAYS seen as "wasting your vote"? Is it because one single vote doesn't really mean anything in the first place? Why yes, as a matter of fact, it is. And people are afraid of another situation like 92, when Clinton won with a mere 42% of the vote thanks to the unpopularity of Bush I.
So we vote for the lesser of two evils. Every. Single. Time. And then we complain about how screwed up society is, not realizing our own mistake in electing leaders we don't really want in the first place.
John McCain strikes me as completely inept, and I fear that with him in the white house, the economy will only sink lower and lower. But Obama scares the living hell out of me.
So what am I going to do? I'm going to vote for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution party. Does he stand a chance? No, not really. Am I wasting my vote? Perhaps. But I refuse to vote for someone I just don't believe in.
People in this country have become so brainwashed by big government that they don't realize how much power we have. Individually, we are nothing, but the mass of the population holds a great deal of power.
Yet even the wisest and most intelligent among us believe that the best we can do is vote for the lesser of two evils. How sad.