Today is the big day…
You get to decide whether to vote for an elitist criminal mastermind or — an elitist criminal mastermind? In America we just call it Democracy in Action! Don’t you feel lucky to be a part of it?
All sarcasm aside, that’s exactly what we’re dealing with.
Now, before you start screaming and spitting at the screen, please allow me to elaborate. I’m not choosing sides here. But to a skeptical voter like myself, both candidates seem to have an awful lot in common:
- Both have pending litigation against them: Hillary’s e-mail scandal and the Trump University fraud case
- Both are powerful multimillionaires with the obvious desire to hang on to both power and money: Clinton from serious international connections and pay-to-play politics and Trump from predatory real estate and shrewd tax exceptions that we, the people, have no access to
- Both have accepted money from and given money to big banks, political institutions, and foreign enterprise
- Both travel in private jets — a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 for Hillary’s paid speeches and Trump’s $100 million Boeing 757 with Rolls-Royce engines for, well, anywhere he wants to go
- Both have well documented family issues: the Clintons faced impeachment resulting from at least one (ahem) well-known affair, and the Donald is well known for his three marriages, and occasional affairs in the meantime. Not to mention the dozen or so women who have accused him of worse…
I could keep going — for quite a while. I’ve honestly never seen two presidential candidates who were so easy to malign. But I’ll let the polls speak for themselves. These two are the most hated presidential candidates of all time — the majority of voters feel unfavorably about both, with a recent poll giving Hillary a 59% unfavorability rating and Trump a 60% unfavorability rating.
In other words, both represent the worst of the elites in America. Does either candidate really represent you as a hard-working American?
Absolutely not…
They don’t care about you, they didn’t care before they used you as a political prop to increase their own power, and they certainly won’t care after they have won the most valuable prize in the world. Both will toss you in the garbage as soon as this entire charade is over. It’s how this whole thing works every… single… time.
It is the curse of the two-party system.
That’s why Outsider Club is officially endorsing Governor Gary Johnson for President…
It’s not because we love him.
It’s not based on the campaign he ran.
It’s not because he inspires us.
It is simply a matter of reconstructing this ridiculous system we have been enslaved by, and hoping that in historic opportunities like these, we can actually make a long-term dent in this rusty political machine…
I know, many of you are already saying: DON’T THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY!
I call your bluff. This year, a third party vote may actually mean something.
I’ve heard it said that government is like steering a massive ship. You can’t simply jerk the wheel and do a 180 without crashing the whole damn thing. You need to work incrementally in order to have any meaningful impact.
This year, there is truly one candidate who can put his hand on the wheel and steer it ever so slightly to a better place. It’s Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. The former governor of New Mexico is an advocate for:
- Free markets
- Non-intervention
- Fiscal responsibility
- Civil liberties
- A Federal Reserve audit
- No bank bailouts
- Internet freedom
- Ending the failed “War on Drugs”, starting with Marijuana legalization
I could keep going, but I think you get the idea: he’s for individual freedom and against big government intervention.
Now, I know — I know — Johnson has butchered this campaign. He thought Aleppo was some esoteric acronym instead of the site of the biggest civil war in the world. He couldn’t name one world leader that he admired, or even one world leader at all. He also stated that global warming wasn’t an issue because the sun is going to envelope the Earth so it won’t matter anyway.
Not exactly the bona-fides you’d like to see in the leader of the free world…
Oh yeah, and his vice-presidential nominee all but endorsed Hillary Clinton.
He’s a very flawed candidate, but that isn’t the point. I’m sad, but ready to say I really don’t care about any of that. He isn’t going to be president. I know this.
Here’s what a vote for Gary Johnson could do…
Get Federal Money
If the Libertarian Party reaches the 5% voting threshold, it will qualify for a federally funded campaign next time around. That means that around $10 million in public financing could be available for the next Libertarian Party candidate.
Right now he’s polling around 5.9%, according to RealClearPolitics.
Let’s get these guys some much needed funding…
Get in the Debates
I know for a fact that I feel much more enlightened after primary debates than presidential debates. When you have a range of people on the stage, you are going to get a lot more interesting answers than if you have two puppets slapping each other in the face — which is exactly why they set up the presidential debates in the first place.
The Commission on Presidential Debates is the private organization in charge of the most important factor in our electoral process. Fewer than 20 people decide who gets to have an “informed debate” about why they should be the leader of the free world.
Gary Johnson himself explained it like this:
“After all, the Commission is a private organization created 30 years ago by the Republican and Democratic parties for the clear purpose of taking control of the only nationally-televised presidential debates voters will see. At the time of its creation, the leaders of those two parties made no effort to hide the fact that they didn’t want any third party intrusions into their shows.”
And Ralph Nader — who got my very first vote in 2000 based on his “crisis of democracy” campaign went even further:
Corporations are deciding who debates, when they debate, who asks the questions. So, in the primaries, you had major corporations decide who gets on, who doesn’t. They excluded, for example, the former head of the IRS, Mr. Everson, former deputy of immigration service, the only man who had any experience in the federal government, because he didn’t have a super PAC sponsoring him.
Now we have the Super Bowl of debates, and we have another corporation, which is funded by other corporations, like Anheuser-Busch, Ford Motor Company, AT&T. They have these hospitality suites at the debate location. And this is controlled by the two-party tyranny that doesn’t want any competition, doesn’t want voices that represent majoritarian directions in this country.
All of these are represented by our third parties, which cannot reach tens of millions of people. You see, it’s basically a terminal exclusion, because you can go and speak to the biggest crowds of all.
They’re not really debates.
Right now you need 15% of the polls in order to get into the debates. The 5% threshold this year will go far to make that a reality.
We need to do something to break up this corrupt, two-party tyranny. This isn’t a new phenomenon…
We were warned about this long ago. As John Adams once said:
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
Let’s start to change that, one vote at a time. Vote for Gary Johnson today.
