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Election: Major parties' candidates unacceptable

The likely candidates for the 2016 presidential election are looking pretty poor. On the one hand, there is an arrogant, self-entitled elitist, and on the other hand there is Donald Trump. '

Now, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary the Unindicted under any circumstances, but Trump is an equally unattractive option.

Trump is a crony capitalist who uses government confiscation of private property under eminent domain (his personal handmaiden) to take other people’s homes and lands to enrich himself and his cronies. He represents the worst of American capitalism.

I would never vote for any Democrat or Republican for president: Those parties represent different sides of the same big-government, statist coin. Instead, I will be voting for Libertarian candidates because I believe the Constitution and the Bill of Rights actually mean something.

This story was originally published February 16, 2016 at 11:53 AM with the headline "Election: Major parties' candidates unacceptable."

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