Presidential Election Aftermath: What Now / What Next?

Gary Johnson defending Bernie.

 

Honestly, I'm voting for Johnson or I'm going to do a write in for myself. I asked around the office and I have 4 votes already! If my wife votes for me, which she probably will, I'd have 5.

 

I dunno. She hasn't heard my speech yet.

#therealdealforreal2016

 

Does anyone else think Tim Kaine is just a bit too much on the creepy side of the spectrum?

 

There's more than "both candidates"

 

I absolutely agree with you. The system is so impossibly rigged because we've allowed the two main parties to take more and more control of the process. We've lost any semblance of democracy and we are somewhere between an oligarchy, a dictatorship, and a republic. We elect the same officials year after year encouraging them to protect their own self interests as a "public service" becomes a career. We tend to elect people within the same family because they're people we can "trust" like the Bushs, the Clintons, the Kennedys even though these families have made fortunes while their constituents mostly remain the same. The only meager amount of control we have is the ability to decide our own delegates and our own small town representatives, but those voices are easily drowned out, bought off, or influenced. The political parties control the media we see so the vast majority of the population believes what they're told to believe not too different from China or Korea.

The difference is we're given the illusion of choice between two parties unlike other dictatorships when in reality those two parties are not too dissimilar. They're both after big government because big government means their livelihood and how many actually relinquish power once they have it?

I think what we're seeing is some of the American people actually waking up and realizing we're NOT a democracy and we've been lead to worry about trivial things and been lead to look in other directions while the two parties continue to violate our rights, rob us of our money, and then tell us they're doing a great job while they continue to take paychecks they write for themselves. We've never seen the corruption so easily on both sides of the fence and yet there's still millions upon millions of people who are willing to vote down party lines in order to save us from the devil on the other side. It's amazing how many people will support Hillary Clinton as she blatantly lies, cheats, and connives her way to the election. Benghazi, the email scandal, the other email scandal, the dozens and dozens of lies that she's caught saying and the #1 reason the DNC has is "better than Trump". I don't know how any self respecting intellectual person can proudly vote for Trump either.

I really got off on a tangent there, but the point I was getting to was that we've lost control. A strong way to wrestle control back from the private interest parties is to vote for someone who stands for something different. Gary Johnson might never be anything and heck he may be lying to our faces too, but he's been the only one of the candidates that has said anything I can agree with. He's the only one I can vote for with a clean conscious. Wasn't that the main argument Dems had for Bernie? This is my Bernie. Socially progressive AND fiscally conservative, those are the best sides of the idiot parties we're lead to vote for. I'd say most Dems don't understand fiscal matters or maybe don't care about them. I'd say most conservatives care too much about social issues, but at least they've got the fiscal part right.

I'm rambling. Vote Gary Johnson! It's a reasonable vote and it's the right vote to try to prove to politicians that we as a society are ready to give up on this system.

 

TROOF!

 

Gary says he doesn't want to get money out of politics, but he wants to make it 100% transparent on who has donated to each candidate.

I'm not sure I think that fixes thing, but I'll damn sure vote for him before Hillary or Trump.

 

I don't think it's possible to take money out of politics at this point, but it never was going to be something we would get with Sanders either. If we can't get it out, then transparency works for me too.

He's also said he wants the government out of people's business which is something I absolutely agree with. I also agree with shrinking government in general.

 

Transparency doesn't matter if one candidate has 1 billion in donations because they're a corporate shill, and the other has 1 million because they have integrity and can't be bought off.

In the end, marketing and getting their name and face out there is what wins votes. Look at the position Gary Johnson is in right now as an example.

 

Transparency will never exist because Gary won't get elected. Either Trump or Clinton will and neither of them want any sort of transparency.

It's a start though and right now that's what we need. There's nobody else in the race offering it. Well maybe that Green Party lady but I haven't listened to her much.