Are you a Hatfield or a McCoy? Or neither, like me?

Why is it that every time I say to a liberal that Obama is a joke or Hillary is a harpy from hell do they immediately assume I am a right wing conspiricist that wants to outlaw abortion while bringing my assault rifle to service at the Westboro church? And why is it that when I say to a conservative that being gay is not a choice they tell me I am going to hell and assume I want to harvest the organs of unborn infants? To quote, and yes from some movie I have seen a dozen times, "Gray! The world is Gray Jack!" But if you pay attention during the election season, which is basically all the fricking time, that's not what the major candidates want you to believe.

Uttered by the Robert Ritter character in Clear and Present Danger, those words have fallen on deaf ears lately. It's the Hatfields and the McCoys out there kiddies, and neither side is willing to budge. I have found that for someone who tries to weigh the issues of both sides, who tries to not vote Republican or Democratic but vote for the best candidate, who has his own ideas that aren't represented by anyone, actually has no voice. I vote not for a candidate, but against one, picking the lesser of 2 evils. In my lifetime I have not rallied behind a candidate once for what he is for, but rather against what his opponent is for. Why is that? In a word politics. Politics is destroying our country.

No serious 3rd party candidate has had any chance at the White House since, hmm let me think here, Mr. Peabody get me in the WABAC machine, Ross Perot? One would have thought that in the early 90's a barrier had been broken, and the tide was turning on the monopoly of the two big parties. Little did we know that those mega fundraising machines would double down and make it impossible for anyone without a major party backing to have even a slim chance of getting elected. Is that doing our country any good? How has that worked out so far? The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, our jobs are disappearing, are youth are disengaged, and we can't even come to an agreement on how to stop lunatics from mass shootings at schools across the nation.

When Republicans scream "Benghazi!" at the Hillary backers are they fanning the flames and embellishing the facts? Of course they are! When Liberals cry about Republicans lining the pockets of and protecting millionaires are they being hypocritical? Of course they are! It's what they do. It's what they all do. Except maybe one, and time will tell. But one candidate has a message out there, one that is anti-establishment, and one that scares every other politician in Washington. The Devil has a name, and it is Bernie Sanders.

Bernie scares everyone in Washington because he dares to challenge the livelihood of every politician in the country, ie: their donors. Listen people, our government has us afraid of them. They use scare tactics to buy your vote, wasting millions, ahem excuse me, billions of dollars in an attempt to get into office so they they can spend the next 4 years paying those donors back and worrying about re-election. Pop quiz, who said, “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” Well of course it's from a movie. I'll leave it to you to research if you care. But this government scares us into compliance by forcing us to vote for whatever candidate they force feed us. Barely half the country votes in our presidential elections. People don't care.

Look at this: 58 countries have higher turnout than the US. The list includes many countries whose governments are considered corrupt. Take Chad for instance. Human Rights Watch, has criticized the election process in Chad, arguing that they have problems such as electoral fraud, multiple voting, underage voting, and low voter turnout. In 2011, they had 57.9% of the people vote. They consider that low voter turnout, while we rejoiced when Obama was elected that we got 57.1% of the people to the polls. The bastion of free society can't muster enough of its citizens to overcome a third world nation dominated by one corrupt party? Why is that? Hmmm, maybe because they think that their vote won't matter? Or maybe because they are sick of the whole process? Maybe both? But back to Bernie.

Has anyone looked at his platform? How can anyone disagree with what he is fighting for? It's a laundry list of everything that makes sense to the average American:

INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY
IT’S TIME TO MAKE COLLEGE TUITION FREE AND DEBT FREE
GETTING BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
CREATING DECENT PAYING JOBS
A LIVING WAGE
CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENT
RACIAL JUSTICE
A FAIR AND HUMANE IMMIGRATION POLICY
FIGHTING FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS
FIGHTING FOR LGBT EQUALITY
CARING FOR OUR VETERANS
STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY
FIGHTING TO LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES
REFORMING WALL STREET

I dare anyone to come up with a good reason why he shouldn't be our next president. Anyone, that is, that isn't already on the payroll. So go ahead and vote for Trump. Or Hillary. Or Jeb or Ted or Carly or Ben. See where it gets us. Nowhere, that's where. And if you think a Jew can't be president, than you are in the governments pocket and playing their game, just like they want you to.