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To: JGT

Many Americans stood by their principles and refused to vote in the last two elections.

This gave us Obama who did not sit back and examine his principles.

He has acted.

And the country is the worse for his actions.

Now, we have people telling us to sit out this election.

The natural result of that will be Hillary Clinton as President.

She will take actions.

These actions will be detrimental to our country.

People can be contemplative. They can be angry. They can be above it all.

And they will be governed by Hillary Clinton and her merry band of criminals.


11 posted on 09/07/2016 10:38:21 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6
Everything you say is true, but that's not my point. It's about addressing systematic manipulations in how we have come to view candidates we consider to be “suitable.” Refusing to vote is not an option, the larger issue is that up until this election we had a choice between the fast road to tyranny (the progressive) vs the slow road to tyranny (the RINO).

And therein lies the problem: dealing with how the system “is” as compared to how it “ought” to be. But we can't live in the fantasy world of “ought.” So we are left with the decision-making process as described by Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, there are no absolute solutions, only a series of trade-offs. It is this series of trade-offs that I am addressing. It leads us to what is referred to as Duverger’s Law. That's the trap that we as a society have found ourselves in up to this point.

Trump provides the first opportunity in many generations to confound this voting dilemma. We can vote for him because he actually is the best candidate; not because we have been boxed into an either/or choice between a socialist vs quasi-socialist.

12 posted on 09/07/2016 11:09:38 AM PDT by JGT
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