Voting Kennedy 2024

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I get it.  It might appear that I'm being coy about the choices. 

My cynicism towards the theater of it all makes me hesitant to commit because I keep seeing myself in the future thinking "That was the wrong choice."

But then I remember that the way the apparatus is systemically played by the "political class" often leads to the choice as being irrelevant.  No one seems to actually "do" anything that improves (or even illuminates) the actual processes that need fixing.  They get embroiled in "more important/emergent" matters and a trifle they call "politics" serves as an excuse to embrace the status quo.

I can understand why ANYONE would choose not to support any one of the candidates at all.  I can even understand why someone might choose to support a specific candidate (well, maybe two out of the three.)  But it appears that my deepest problem is with who "selected" the candidates.  I was always in favor of the "write-in" option.  I think that would be a valuable bit of information to provide social awareness to the public, for whom this process is supposed to be a service.  Even if everyone voted for SpongeBob SquarePants.  It would be a good to know.

I tire of politicians telling the country "This is what you think."  It reeks of "This is what the party says."  I also don't care about how much bravado or charm you can display to the public.  This role is supposed to transcend the trite "appearances" game it has become... "appearances" are for grifters and thieves.  Neither of which I feel is a requirement for leadership... even if it is a requirement for "political" leadership.  I suspect all three candidates are political showmen... not a criticism, just my baseline.

I choose to hold a standard that none of them seem eager to meet.  And my country isn't a school lunchroom (where you have to pick something even if you won't eat it.) That kind of autocracy is to be expected from the political class, (whose baseline is that "you'll choose whoever we tell you to, and if you don't, we'll call you names." (Another feature of activism.)

I believe that my ideal candidate, whoever or she might be, would be at best - actively thwarted at every level, or at worst - in physical danger, were they to serve, let alone run.

Write-in... definitely write-in.  Too bad they "got rid of that" because ... reasons.

Yes, we all want a better class of candidates. I think where I coming from simply is I believe we can do better than the last 8 years... part of that is having more choices and if a 3rd Party is successful then maybe the other parties will get-together and have better candidates as well.

Right now we have the incumbent President talk not about the border, the economy, or the wars in Ukraine or Israel but crow that his opposition has no cash.  

An incumbent President shouldn't be in the position he finds himself in, especially against such a divisive individual as Trump. 

Trump just feels like he is on a revenge tour, while Biden has historic lows for an incumbent. RFKjr isn't going to destroy the country and he may address our most urgent needs more effectively like the border and perhaps not being so devisive