How many of us have avoided answering the question of who we will choose for President in November? In fact, many I’ve spoken with say they lie and say Harris, when they would never vote for her. Why are we doing this? It’s because of the liberal backlash if you support anyone other than the anointed one. I saw this behavior many times with Hillary Clinton. I was rebuked for not wishing to vote for “the woman.” How dare I?
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) along with the progressive religion has impacted every aspect of life. Do you hear liberals not wishing to discuss politics? No, they shove it down your throat. Then, they refuse to hear anything you might say, unless you share their views.
The answer to the “who will I vote for” question, especially when you don’t know the political bias of the pollster is to say Chase Oliver. Oliver is the Libertarian candidate, a man almost no one knows because of our screwed-up two-party system. In fairness, I am a small-l libertarian, because the party has gone nuts on a few issues, focusing too much on wider drug legalization and open borders. However, he’s the perfect response to the question from people and pollsters to the voting issue. Why? Because they can’t answer it. It completely shuts them up.
Lefties never want to hear anything that might cause them to question their religion. They somehow know that libertarianism is synonymous with small government and less handouts; they don’t like that. But they don’t know more and with their heads stuck firmly in the sand, won’t listen anyway. But it solves the problem. And more important, if you don’t say Trump, the polls look bad and we can surprise them just as we did in 2016. Are you on board?
A Little About Chase
First, he’s a persuasive and compelling speaker. The third-party candidates spoke to us at Freedom Fest this year, and he was the only one that didn’t seem delusional. He is thoughtful, considered and can define his positions clearly. Note that I’m not on board with all of them, especially immigration and ranked choice voting. But he’s still my choice when pushed to answer the question. It will get you off the hook.
Here are some of his positions:
1. Slash the spending and balance the budget; stop devaluing our dollars by printing money.
2. Change all immigration back to the Ellis Island days where everyone is vetted and checked for health. (I’m not on board with open borders myself, until we stop welfare and birth-right citizenship. Plus, he, like so many conflate legal and illegal immigration. There’s a difference)
3. Make healthcare more affordable by removing caps on HSAs and allow people to buy insurance across state lines (avoiding mandates imposed by blue states). Double down on direct primary care which is more affordable and doesn’t involve insurance. Streamline drug approval, so the costs go down.
4. End the Dept of Education and all federal involvement. Education is a local issue. End the federal control of student loans.
5. Nuclear power is the way forward—clean, safe, efficient. Focus on science-backed solutions instead of focusing on EVs as a solution to everything.
6. He fully backs the 2nd Amendment, feeling that everyone should be able to defend themselves against violence.
These are just some of his positions, but note that there is no reason Republicans can’t espouse the good ones. Let’s just make sure Harris doesn’t win and then we can go from there. This election matters; we might not have a country unless we can keep the Left out of power.
In California, voting for the LP ticket is especially valuable. It's not going to be enough to "swing the state to Trump." Nothing will "spoil" the California election for Harris. Too many normies are just too ignorant. What it will do, though, is scare the mid- and lower-level electeds. County supervisor and city council seats (and school boards, and sheriffs, and water boards) are technically nonpartisan races in CA, but many candidates rely on party machines to tilt the scales their way, and are happy to sell themselves to whichever set of talking points will get them over the finish line. The party machines are happy to do that, because these offices generate the party's bench for higher offices and races.
A growing and robust third-party population scares the hell out of people running in local nonpartisan races, because it potentially means the base of whichever legacy machine they've been able to rely on is eroding, and they're going to have to engage with real people who think differently than they do. Most of them can't engage like that. A growing third party movement exposes those frauds, and there's no group of frauds that needs to be exposed more.
Voting third party is the strategic choice for Californians who want to pursue real change here.