Top Five Excuses for not doing the right thing.

1)  "I can't waste my vote on a third party candidate."

2)  "This election is too important to vote third party."

3)  "Our candidate is not the best, but his opponent is even worse."

4)  "I have to vote a straight party ticket because the other party is so evil."

5)  "It's OK to vote for the lesser of two evils."

We have heard these excuses all before--yes, excuses.  They are excuses for not doing the right thing.  They are lies we have been taught and now believe.   What is the result?  More government, more regulation.  Less freedom, less rights.  Same Democrat options, Same Republican options. 

What will it take to break out of this Matrix? 

You have to decide to do the right thing.  The right thing is to vote your principles, not your fears.  If you vote your political principles, we can turn this country around.  But if you vote your fears, there is no hope.  Democrats and Republicans will fill your mind with fear -- fear about what the other "evil candidate" will do, might do, could do.  They don't want you to think about what will happen if "your candidate" actually wins (yes, what if the "lesser evil" actually wins, the one you are thinking about voting for?).  The ugly truth is that you are actually thinking about voting for that "lesser of" candidate.  Sure, not as bad as the other guy mind you, but a "lesser evil" all the same. 

Friend, we must resolve to vote our principles, not our fears.

I encourage you to vote for candidates who are committed to principles--principles of limited government and unalienable rights, candidates who believe in the promises of the Declaration of Independence, not the power of the IRS to force your neighbor to pay for your benefits.  Such candidates are found in the Libertarian party.  The day of independent minded Democratic and Republican candidates is over.  Except for Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a handful of others, none are committed to these principles in the Democratic or Republican parties.  In fact, they are no longer political parties at all.  These parties are now extensions of governmental policy at the state and federal level.

It is hard to see this piece of reality this from inside the Matrix in which the American voter lives.  But if you vote for the lesser of two evils this election, ignoring third party candidates, ignoring the Libertarian option and you do so against your own conscience and your professed principles, at least you will know that you cannot free yourself.  Someone else must do it for you.  Your Democratic or Republican master perhaps?  

The political Matrix created by the Democrat and Republican party will not free you or reverse the rejection of our founding principles.  You have that power, if you will use it.