So this week Hillary Clinton was declined to be prosecuted for not getting her email server security up to snuff. Her haters have been having a field day with this...'If she were anybody else she'd be in jail right now!', even though the FBI director is a Republican appointment and has nothing to lose by going after her. I get the hatred, though...25 years of the Clintons, and it seems like they keep getting away with stuff. Whitewater, Monica, Vince Foster, the Clinton Foundation, Benghazi...forget Reagan, these are truly the teflon presidents! Clinton fatigue has already set in, and she's not even president yet.
Of course, once again we have a situation in which people are outraged because they things they have been told on Breitbart or Fox News or Rush Limbaugh have once again been false. They have a sense of reality that is not really real, and so they believe that the system is rigged. But just as you may have a right to your own opinion but not your own facts, so also you do not get to believe absolutely that your view of the world must be so.
What's funny about this is that different polls have been done asking essentially, "Do you believe that a leader sometimes needs to break the rules to get things done?" And almost universally Trump supporters say yes, even as they are screaming for Hillary to go to jail. Hillary broke rules about the proper protocols for her email servers...shouldn't conservatives be praising her for going outside Big Government rules? In the end, this is a about 2 (1-10 scale) in the world of real scandals. The Donald smashes that number each week.
Yet this week has also made me realize something...as much as I despise Donald Trump, and think that Hillary Clinton in a vacuum would be a decent president (though I think she's too much of a hawk and is too close to big business), I just can't support her. This week was a preview of what the next four years is going to look like with a Hillary presidency...scandal after perceived scandal after near scandal. If this presidency is a rerun of Bill Clinton's presidency, it's a wonder that anything can get done between all the damage control. 2020 would likely be set up to be a Republican landslide.
So, who will I vote for? Four years ago I declined to vote since this is the reddest of red states. But this year I think there's a chance that many of the right-wing policies of Brownback and the Koch Brothers in Kansas may get beaten...mostly I will vote for non-incumbents, meaning Democrats since they are about the only options in most elections (though I'm not a big fan of the party). Yet for Presidency, there are many options...and at this point I am leaning towards Gary Johnson & William Weld, the Libertarian ticket. Generally I am sympathetic towards libertarianism (when it doesn't go crazy with free market economics and nakedly support the wealth class), and they have a chance to make a real difference this election. They still won't win...but it would be nice to not have to support the lesser of two evils.
