The Choice is Obvious.
Ted Folkert
October 10, 2016
Yes, the choice is obvious. It reminds me of what my mom used to say when I couldn’t find something: “If it was a snake, it would bite you.”
What to do, what to do. Who to vote for to lead our nation. Not a simple matter and plenty of reason for indecision.
Some say they just can’t support Donald Trump. Some say they just can’t support Hillary Clinton. Some say they just can’t support either one. Some say they will vote for the Libertarian candidate. Some say they will write in Bernie Sanders. Some say they will just not vote because they don’t like any of the candidates.
All of these choices are understandable. There is plenty to not like about any of them if you look at all of their beliefs, actions and claims of how they will govern if elected.
But we can’t afford to sit out the election or vote against any candidate. The only reasonable option is to vote for one of the candidates who can possibly win the election at this point – Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
The Libertarian candidate seems like a nice guy although seems to lack knowledge about the world he lives in. But regardless of his lack of worldly knowledge, he doesn’t have nearly enough support to be a possible winner and time has run out.
Bernie Sanders was the favorite candidate of many of us and preached the message that many of us found inspiring, but he couldn’t possibly get enough write-ins to be elected and time has run out.
Donald Trump has proven over and over again that he is irresponsible, erratic, unforgiving, self-centered, untruthful, impatient, unrealistic, rude, prejudicial, unrelenting, deceptive, dishonest, uninformed, uneducated about foreign matters – a dangerous narcissist – in other words, totally unqualified to be president of the United States. Not only unqualified but too dangerous and unpredictable to have any governing power of any nature, let alone that of one of the most powerful leaders of the free world.
This stuff wasn’t just made up recently. You can read it in most any publication in the country and hear it on many news media outlets at any given time. He is being ignored by most of the leading Republican campaign contributors in the country and that list grows on a daily basis. He is being continually disclaimed and rejected by many leaders of his own party. He is beyond the hold-your-nose-and-vote stage as a viable candidate.
One of Trump’s ways of accusing an opponent of something starts out with “some people are saying”. Boy is he right about that. They are saying plenty and the conversation is about his ineptness for holding political office.
So, although many of us were not early supporters of Hillary, she remains the only reasonable choice. She has more experience in governmental affairs and US interaction with foreign countries than any candidate or elected official that I can remember. She has been accused of dishonesty but not in matters that would disqualify her from leading the country. Any dishonesty that she could be guilty of would seem like child play when compared to the scam artist that she is running against. She has relationships with hundreds of leaders in government that date back for several decades. The pronounced actions she would take as the leader of the country are mostly favorable to the majority of the population.
It seems the safest choice, the most palatable choice and obviously the choice with the best promise to lead the country in a democratic and equitable manner while maintaining a responsible relationship with all the other industrial nations. Her decades of efforts to improve childhood education is commendable. If she can stay away from Wall Street and team up with the likes of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, perhaps we can continue the great progress we have made in the last few years in spite of an obstructionist congress controlled by simple minded Republicans whose only concern for eight years has been to regain power over the US Treasury.
Think about it!