My Email Exchange with Yahoo News!
I was recently contacted by Jon Ward of Yahoo News, who wanted to do a profile of me and specifically to focus on why I felt the need to support Trump in the general election. My emails with him were amicable, and I think Jon genuinely meant well in all he wrote, but in the end I was disappointed in the piece, as were many friends who read it. You may read it for yourself here.
In any event, I thought it would be best to post my actual Q&A with Jon for clarity, and it is below for you to rea...
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Werner described my sentiments and thoughts exactly. Having written so many books about history changers who stood by their conscious even when it seemed hopeless, it still completely baffles and disappoints me that you supported Trump.
Donald Trump was not, in absolute terms, the only candidate who could defeat Hilary. The objective reality is that the voters are still free to vote for any candidate they want. We're told (constantly, dishonestly and manipulatively) by Big Media, in every election from President to dog catcher, that only the two establishment party candidates have any chance to win; that our preferences don't matter, the exclusive title of those two parties to permanent power has been determined for the nation whether we like it or not, and we might as well suck it up, hold our nose, and vote for the "lesser of two evils." (And reconcile ourselves to the idea that our choices will never be anything but evils.) If enough people blindly believe this, it becomes a subjective, self-fulfilling reality, which is how the cultural elites keep control --greatly aided, of course, by the fact that they can maintain a near absolute news blackout on every third party candidate in most "mainstream" media. (Donald Trump would never have been a serious contender for the GOP nomination if he'd been subjected to the same blackout in early 2016; but Big Media lavished coverage on him because they were convinced he'd be the easiest candidate for Hilary to beat. But I digress.)
However, it is a fact that independent and third party candidates HAVE won U.S. elections at times --and not only in the remote past, but in the last 25 years. It's not easy, but it happens when they get enough publicity, and secure the backing, of enough people to make it happen. That takes a decision by enough people to stop sipping Big Media's poisoned Kool-Aid, to stop voting the way they're told they have to and actually vote their consciences. IMO, every person who makes that a practice, who refuses to play the cultural establishment's game according to its own stacked rules, makes it easier and more likely for the number of such voters to grow, even if our numbers are small now. Political cultures aren't changed overnight; but changing this one is our only hope for building a decent and livable society in our country in our time or in our children's and grandchildren's.
For my part, I supported Darrell Castle, the Constitution Party's candidate, for President in 2016. In so doing, I don't feel that I "wasted my vote" --I cast it for a candidate who offered what I feel is a responsible and constructive program for our country, and who projected a character and temperament I considered suited to the office. I respect those who had a different opinion; but I stand by mine.