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  • Posted by bsmith51 8 years, 6 months ago
    Your choice, as I see it, is to try to stop the corruptocracy, or to allow the nation to collapse and be re-formed into whatever might follow.

    Are we a nation ready to listen to, and act on, John Galt's speech?
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  • Posted by GaryL 8 years, 6 months ago
    Not voting at all changes nothing in the electoral process while voting for some lunatic third party candidate does. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Clinton this is completely understandable. If you can't bring yourself to then vote for Trump then do us a favor and just stay home.
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  • Posted by Hawron 8 years, 6 months ago
    Do as you wish as a free person... BUT don't lie to yourself about "following your conscience".

    If you want Hillary to win you must any of the following:
    Vote for Hillary
    Vote for anybody but Trump
    Don't vote at all.

    Any of those actions are either a direct vote for Hillary, or passively voting for Hillary while trying to hide your passive acquiescence of her rise to power in some warm cloak of excuses.

    Otherwise Vote Trump!

    If you look at it rationally, you have 2 binary choices...
    Either you actively or passively help Hillary win.
    Or you actively help Trump win.

    You can lie to yourself all you want but those are the choices. Accept Hillary's rule or Vote Trump.
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  • Posted by IndianaGary 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To an extent, I agree, however, simply not voting does nothing to advance your self-preservation and could be argued to operate against it. I'm not a big fan of Trump, but, on balance, his policies are far more life-affirming than that of Clinton. I also really don't want to go through any more years of Clinton drama. She is highly blackmail-able and would sell us all down the river for more power.
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  • Posted by Blanco 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I too will hold my nose and vote for Donald. As an avid shooter and defender of the Second Amendment, I must vote for someone who promises to defend my right to keep and bear arms.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I will vote for Trump and it is for my families best interest and I would love to hear him saying to a
    Conflagration of corrupt bureaucraps "your fired"
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 6 months ago
    Re: “I am leaning toward not voting for any presidential candidate. Am I justified?” Just be aware of what your choices actually represent. A vote for Johnson is a vote for Hillary, a vote for Hillary is a vote for Trump, and a vote for Trump is a vote for Johnson. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for nobody, and a vote for nobody is a vote for Jill Stein. All clear? :-)
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  • Posted by rbroberg 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This statement appeals to the dilemma. Is it a pragmatist compromise to go with the least bad option, or is it legitimate self-preservation?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 6 months ago
    I early voted for myself yesterday. Yes, you are justified.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 6 months ago
    You should do what is in your own ethical self interest.
    Not voting , may allow you to not sanction the winner , but it won't help our country stop the leftist statist collectivists that currently have a strangle hold on our rights.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Your description of Trump should read as a description ofHRC you say "Clinton is a competent politition" true if competent means selling USA favors to enrich the Clinton family.
    She has planted in the media outright lies about Trump that people like you are swallowing hook line and sinker. Her good connections with the RINO's and the dems will only mean a green light to continue the destruction of our constitution.
    "It would be totally defecating on the office of the POTUS and any respect for it" to late , the current POTUS has already accomplished that.
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    Posted by $ sjatkins 8 years, 6 months ago
    My opinion is that Trump is so obviously and totally unfit and incapable of being POTUS that we must stop any possibility of that occurring. He is a pathological liar, vindictive, known for treating people around him quite badly in business and out, and throughly ignorant - not only ignorant but profoundly anti-intellectual.

    Putting such into the most powerful political office in the world in completely insane. It must not occur. It would basically be totally defecating on the office of POTUS and any respect for it or for what once really did make America great.

    Now I don't like Hillary either. She, like Trump is a big government statist. Her policy on guns, global warming and noises about "income inequality" are quite disturbing. However, she is a very competent politician and she appears to be quite sane if highly misguided. She has good connections at home and abroad important to the role whereas Trump has pretty much alienated nearly everyone he would have to work closely with as POTUS.

    The only other respectable choice is to vote for Johnson and only if Trump has no chance. Otherwise my opinion is one would be chancing death of much too much that is dear.
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  • Posted by robgambrill 8 years, 6 months ago
    Sure, voting isn't and shouldn't be mandatory.

    I am voting based on preference of policies, neither candidate really has me all that excited.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
    Of course you are. If there is no candidate that represents your views, you should not be compelled to consent to one who does not.
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