If you see the world, or at least the USA, as a "my party vs your party" contest, where the important thing is to win the contest at all costs, then yeah, you shouldn't vote Libertarian.
But if you dislike the stranglehold of money and media that the US people have given politics over to, if dislike how both parties will hypocritically change rules to benefit themselves and then complain when the other side does the same thing, if you are tired of abuses of power and of how nobody watches the watchers, and if you believe the increasing power of government to intrude on US citizens is a big problem, then I have hard time understanding why you wouldn't vote Libertarian. If you vote D or R, you are willingly announcing your support for all these things you purport to oppose. They don't care what you say you don't like about corruption as long as in the end, you check their box.
Here's one thing people are missing who are in the "We must vote Trump because of the courts" camp.
Trump stopping Hillary from loading the Supreme Court with extreme bench-legislators who read their opinions into the law rather than reading the law for what it says .... is that going to fix the problem? Is that going to reverse the trends? Hardly. Those things you're worried about a Hillary-nominated SCOTUS doing? Congress will still be doing them. The president will still be doing them. And the SCOTUS will still be doing, them but just maybe slightly less. Yay? This is like firing bb guns into a herd of stampeding elephants and feeling satisfied that one of them slowed down to scratch a little bit.
Why? If I strongly DO NOT WANT THAT PERSON TO WIN? There's no bonus points for getting to claim "I voted for the winner".
About time someone figured this out.
Last edited: Jun 23, 2016