In my congressional district, we have a choice between candidate 1, who has renigged on paying back a loan and allegedly lied to a court regarding assets, and candidate 2, who has been fully supporting with his votes the most corrupt, inept, destructive Presidential Administration during my lifetime if not America's history. We should note here what Wynton Marsalis said regarding the current level of Presidential corruption. He said that our nation has been building toward this current level of curruption for a long time.
Before Trump's takeover of the Republican Party, I could happily vote my conscience, which means that I could vote for the third party candidate of my choice without much fear. Those days are gone now, and perhaps forever.
The reasons for our limited choices starts with our two-party system. Because of that, the vast majority of voters pull the lever for candidates from either the them or not-them parties. In a two-party system, the only job that a candidate has is to persuade voters that he/she belongs to the other party. And from there we have a race to the bottom. Neither party has to show that they can really solve any problems, they only have to convince people that they will not bring on the disaster that they claim the other party will bring.
What about independent voters? Any independent voter who votes only for candidates from the two major parties shows that they are really a bipolar voter, not an independent one.
What about the voting for third party candidates? Viability has already moved the vast number of voters to remain voting for candidates from one of the 2 parties. The Citizens United may have reinforced that trend as money fuels the repetition of claims that that cause them to be believed regardless of their truth value. Money poured into the making of repetitious claims all but ensures that the names 3rd party candidates will be unrecognizable because of the relatively limited number of commercials that they can buy.
And so what do we have left? If I vote for congressional candidates from Trump's party, I am voting for Trump's flying monkeys because of the loyalty both demanded by Trump and exercised by their votes in Congress. And so a vote for congressional Republicans is a vote for Trump's agenda.
If I vote for candidates from the not-Trump-party, I am voting for those who resemble Munchkins in their opposition to Trump. Some use the an acronym 'TACO' to say that 'Trump Always Chickens Out.' The congressional Dems are not comfortably far enough away from that monicker. That, on sme key votes, enough Democrats have done some chickening out on their own. And so I find myself in a kind of voter's Sophie's choice. And since opposing the current class coup that wants to transform America into a dictatorship, I compelled to vote for the Munchkins. That means that I have not voted for Trump's flying monkeys but I have little hope that the Munchkin candidates will prove themselves to be anything but politically impotent.
There is a slight ray of hope in the Democratic Party. That ray comes from the fact that the Democratic Party is being infiltrated by Democratic Socialists of various types. Though I cannot be sufficiently satisfied with their view of socialism because my leaning toward socialism is tempered by the writings of Martin Luther King Jr., these socialist infiltrators are certainly preferable to the current set of congressional Munchkins.
And so what choice do I have? Before answering that question, we should recognize that there are Republican voters who are asking the same question. They may have come to detest Trump and his flying monkeys, but the non-conservative's positions on immigration, abortion and LGBT rights and equality make voting for the congressional Munchkins untenable.
And, btw, what can said about congressional candidates can also be said about state candidates.
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