So here we are.

This is the choice we’re given this year:

An egomaniacal New York Democrat who represents the terrible nexus between powerful moneyed interests and overbearing governmental influence in our lives.

A candidate whose entire family’s wealth in fact is a direct result of underhanded, criminal at times, manipulation of power that puts the ‘little guy’ under the thumb of those in undeserved positions of power and authority.

A candidate with actual legal travails in fact hanging like the Sword of Damocles as we move into the general election season.

A staunch supporter of Planned Parenthood, universal healthcare, and the expansion of governmental power, with a blindly protectionist view of free trade, who (although a supporter of it at the time) contends that George W Bush lied us into war in Iraq.

A candidate who cozies up to (and profits from relationships with) foreign strongmen.

A candidate who expresses an excitement and yearning desire to gut the First Amendment, primarily with the goal of targeting political enemies.

A candidate who colluded with party leaders to squelch any expression of inner-party dissent and explicitly and in the most personal and insulting ways conceivable to deny fellow-party adversaries any legitimacy even if it meant dragging them through the mud.

A candidate who chooses to offset such obvious personal (and universally accepted) flaws with a boring and milquetoast running mate with the hopes the general electorate will not take notice of such clear unfitness for the job.

A crooked, deceitful, duplicitous lout with an unquenchable desire for power and a seemingly physical inability to tell the truth.

The most unliked major-party nominee for president in the history of the United States.

So what, then? Are we supposed to vote for his opponent instead?

-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from TML)