{"id":526,"date":"2016-05-10T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=526"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:59:46","slug":"x-nevertrump-neverhillary-nevermind-theres-a-third-option-that-doesnt-involve-a-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/05\/x-nevertrump-neverhillary-nevermind-theres-a-third-option-that-doesnt-involve-a-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"#NeverTrump? #NeverHillary? #NeverMind: There\u2019s a Third Option That Doesn\u2019t Involve A Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/524665266\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 63.973064% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/524665266?et=kc9DhEjDTtlSvuGAg3s3ew&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=PC3hTm7L7hnSPX6FBtN6ZfsDTJDjthGOf8FKIiMbAS0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hate Presidential political campaign seasons. I hate the around-the-clock news coverage, I hate the \u201ccan you believe s\/he said THAT?\u201d accusations, I hate the negative ads. Mostly, I hate what it does to people \u2013 reasonable, rational people \u2013 and how the race somehow becomes a filter for their lives.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You meet a new person at a party or church, and you ask, \u201cWhat do you think about this political season? Crazy, huh?\u201d But what you really want to know is \u201cwhich side are you on?\u201d Democrat or Republican? #NeverTrump or #NeverHillary? Good or bad? This or that?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always said that Washington DC now hands down options from \u201con high,\u201d though we used to govern ourselves. When this nation was founded, the government acted only to protect life, liberty and property.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, our Founders didn\u2019t want the President to have an inordinate amount of power. George Washington didn\u2019t really participate in the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Because he perceived that people held him in too much reverence, he didn\u2019t want his true positions to affect the proceedings too much. Though he chaired the proceedings, he said almost nothing other than piping in a debate about district size.<\/p>\n<p>He was worried that the President would have too much influence. Imagine what he\u2019d say if he saw one day of cable news coverage in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d be shocked that politics have so encroached into every area of life that we endlessly debate the healthcare, education, and economic policies our so-called leaders hand down to us. He\u2019d be even more shocked that we\u2019re endlessly debating between the two choices that our political system has handed down to us.<\/p>\n<p>Trump? Clinton?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.injo.com\/2016\/05\/255880-nevertrump-neverhillary-nevermind-theres-a-third-option-that-doesnt-involve-a-candidate\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ENJOY\u00a0THE REST OF THIS PIECE ON INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a moment to step outside of the two boxes from which society says we must choose. According to the founders and Constitution, we decide our fate \u2013 not politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#NeverTrump? #NeverHillary? #NeverMind: There\u2019s a Third Option That Doesn\u2019t Involve A Candidate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Let\u2019s take a moment to step outside of the two boxes from which society says we must choose. 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