Obama, Romney fail to present reasonable centrist solutions to problems
Is it just me or are these candidates not doing it for anyone else either? Maybe the members of College Republicans and Democrats are extremely excited for this election and cannot wait to vote for their respective candidates, but I have a feeling that most students, at this school at least, are feeling a little underwhelmed and apathetic about this election. You have two really strange heads of the same worthless coin and a broken two-party system that’s given us nothing but division, political unrest by both sides, the Tea Party and the 99 percent, the skyrocketing debt, and we are supposed to thank them by going to our local voting booth and vote for one of the two. Polls have shown that about 46 percent of Americans see a need for a third party, and now I’m just pleading those Americans to not give into the pressure of voting for one of the two major parties, but to look outside of them for a different, more sane choice.
If you’re still looking for that special someone to vote for in November, look no further than former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. You may remember him from the few Republican debates that he was in, or maybe not as he did not get asked too many questions because he was not see as much of a threat. Well, he has not gone anywhere, instead he is running for president as a Libertarian.
Johnson is the best alternative vote that the American people have been given, and he will be the only other candidate on all of the ballots of all fifty states. He is a fiscal conservative who wants to cut back on wasteful government spending by eliminating wasteful programs such as the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. He wants to cut taxes, repeal the Patriot Act and Obamacare and legalize marijuana and gay marriage. He also has experience in the private sector, creating a successful construction company in New Mexico that employs over 1000 workers today and he served as governor during one of the most prosperous times in New Mexico. He is one of the few who understands that it is not the government that created jobs, but the small business men and women like himself.
Do not let anyone tell you, that voting for someone other than Romney or Obama is a wasted vote especially in this election season. It is not. A wasted vote is not voting at all. Even if you vote for Mickey Mouse you are not wasting your vote. You are, in fact, letting your voice be heard that you are not satisfied with the choices and will be voting as such, because even when you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.