Ron Chusid urges his readers to vote for a minor party this year

The five percent solution

Voting for Clinton is essentially a vote for war, while Trump has shown no coherent understanding of the issues and the results, of his election are quite unpredictable. 

Voting for one of them will only perpetuate the problem.

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The best solution is to vote third party. 

Historically third parties have been among the most effective ways to force the major parties to listen to outside views. 

In the twentieth century, Democrats often adopted progressive positions to avoid losing votes to third parties of the left.  

Without that pressure, we are seeing the Democratic Party move steadily toward the right.

This year, only third party candidates such as Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party have shown any interest in issues such as reducing foreign interventionism, curtailing the surveillance state, or ending the drug war.

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This isn’t about whether a third party candidate can win as there are huge benefits for a third party to reach 5 percent, which is possibly achievable even if victory is not this year. 

It isn’t even about whether you want Jill Stein or Gary Johnson specifically to be president. 

Neither will be, and the vote is really for their party platforms and to influence the direction of politics in the future.

He says Hillary is a sociocon, which is a gross falsehood.

He says she is a neocon and will not put a stop to America's 15 years of war against Jihaders by just stopping it.

Then so is Obama, and so is Bernie Sanders, and so is every politician who refuses to just walk away as the cancer of Jihad eats up ever more of the Muslim world and increasingly threatens all the rest of us, or walk away from our integration with NATO, our alliances in the Pacific, and our commitment to non-proliferation.

And anyway I don't want the Democrats to be more like the Greens in ideology or agenda.

Nor like the Libertarians.

Later today, the wife and I will drive to the rec center and vote for Hillary Clinton and the straight Democratic ticket.