Originally posted at: TheLibertarianAdvisor.com

NUMBER 1 REASON TO VOTE TRUMP…ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A LIBERAL OR RON PAUL SUPPORTER

As a Libertarian, I have taken quite a bit of flak for getting behind Trump as most of you who are reading this can imagine.   Is Trump my ideal candidate…no.  Was I behind him from the get go…no.  Do I think he is a Libertarian…no.  Do I like his police state tendencies…no.  Do I agree with everything that comes out of his mouth no…  I could keep going but In the interest of making my point I'll cut to the meat and potatoes.

My political Idol, like many in the Liberty Movement is Dr Ron Paul.  It is very fitting that even Ron Paul has not gotten behind Gary Johnson.  When Gary was initially named the nominee I was very supportive of his run as I had been in 2012.  After the nomination I heard quite a bit of rumblings from some of the more hard core Libertarian activists that they could not support Gary.  One of my Wife's friends was livid that Gary was the nominee and I unsuccessfully tried to convince her that while Gary may not have been the activist's choice that he brought a lot of good things to the table and that they should support him.

Rule #1…never tell an anarcho-capitalist what they should do.   (I do not consider myself an Anarcho-capitalist) In 2012 I had conversations with people every day about Gary and have probably told more people about Gary in a positive light than probably 99% of the people in the Liberty Movement let alone the general public.   I had problems with Gary's violations of the non-aggression principle when it came to forcing baker's to bake gay cakes.  I had problems with his support of the EPA.  I had problems with his support of the TPP.   In regards to the TPP I was willing to give Gary the benefit of the doubt that he simply wanted to be on the other side of Trump and endorse a very Libertarian ideal known as free trade.  I'm assuming most people who are reading this know what is wrong with TPP but that is another can of worms.  Everyone reading this knows a free trade deal can be achieved with less words than the length of this article but the general zombie like public does not know this and I think this was an attempt to get more of the electorate who vehemently hated Trump to give Gary a shot… assuming they had even heard of him.

The real deal breaker came in August when I heard comments Bill Weld made about guns. Yes he had been for the assault weapon ban in the 90's but people's stances do "evolve" and I wasn't going to throw the baby out with the bath water.  Then I found out the comment in reference  was made just days prior!!!

I did everything I could to get behind Gary/ Weld and when it comes down to it I probably agree with 90 % of their stances.   As someone involved in the Liberty movement I could no longer put my meaningless support behind the ticket.    The issues I didn't agree on included: big time encroachment on the 2nd amendment; support of the globalist TPP trade deal; and violations of the non-aggression principle were the biggies.  There are more than likely a few other issues I failed to mention but you get the point.

It is very interesting that the standard bearer / God father of Liberty Ron Paul has also chosen not to endorse Trump.  To be fair he hasn't endorsed anyone, although he did put himself on a limb to make the Libertarian case for Jill Stein without fully endorsing her.  A lot of this had to do with the non-aggression principle and that is a completely logical argument.

On the Jill Stein side of the equation she makes no bones about not liking either of the big parties candidates (QUOTE)

What is interesting though is that Jill Stein all but says Hillary is a psycho path for wanting to start WW3 with Russia which means Trump is less dangerous.   Without getting into all the evidence to support this theory on this blog (Don't worry…that will be coming) that is also a very logical flow.    Jill did not endorse Trump but she did insinuate that she would rather have Trump than a worldwide nuclear holocaust.

"We have 2000 nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert. They are saying we are closer to a nuclear war than we have ever been.

Under Hillary Clinton, we could slide into nuclear war very quickly from her declared policy in Syria.

I sure won't sleep well at night if Donald Trump is elected, but I sure won't sleep well at night if Hillary Clinton elected. We have another choice other than these two candidates who are both promoting lethal policies.

On the issue of war and nuclear weapons, it is actually Hillary's policies which are much scarier than Donald Trump who does not want to go to war with Russia.

He wants to seek modes of working together, which is the route that we need to follow not to go into confrontation and nuclear war with Russia."

When I first learned to drive my Grandfather had a saying that said… you can be right and dead, referring to the other drivers.   I think the same thing applies here.   Do I think Gary would actually sign the TPP if it is the globalist trade deal that it appears to be…no.   Do I think Gary would actually limit the second amendment… no.  Is the issue of baking Gay cakes my number 1 priority…no (The other 3 nominees also support this stance so this issue is unfortunately a moot point). If I don't think Gary will do these things then by extension that either makes him extremely: naïve, dumb, or disingenuous.  In a Machiavellian sense I can see arguments for disingenuous but when you are playing around with WW3 we don't have time to play patty cake (no pun intended).   I am not against anyone who is voting for Gary and I know that many haven't walked in the same shoes as me.

What is troubling though is that much of the Libertarian Press / blogs / Facebook pages do everything they can to ostracize Trump supporters.  One thing that many in the movement forget, is that we will need many of their votes in the future if we want to have a chance at Liberty in the future and denigrating them will not help the cause.  I have been guilty of this when it comes to Bernie supporters on occasion and need to do a better job at catching myself.   I find that when I talk to Bernie supporters about income inequality from the angle of the Federal Reserve and currency devaluation that many of them have a lightbulb go off and can be converted.

Now ardent Hillary supporters are a different breed and I don't mean everyone voting for Hillary is a bad person but come on….

The left supposedly hates War but has no problem nominating a candidate who is saber rattling with Russia.

The left are supposedly against the big banks: but are for the candidate who has received more Wall St .01% money then every president since William Mckinley

The left is supposedly against income inequality but are getting behind the candidate who has received 100% of the donations from Federal Reserve employees.

The left is for Civil liberties but are for the nominee who wants to continue warrantless spying and continue locking up journalist over the espionage act*.

*Obama has locked up more journalist then every president combined.

The left is for transparency but wants to pass bills to find out what is in them and from the WikiLeaks Podesta dump we know that Hillary told Goldman that "She has a public position and a private position"

The left is for Gay Marriage ( Why is the government involved in this in the first place?) but is for the candidate who has said:

Hillary against Gay Marriage

The left is does not see a problem with the current immigration policies and are vehemently against trump but are for Hillary who said this:

Hillary Sounding  a lot like Trump

And This

I could go all day pointing out the hypocrisy of the left whether its Trump's comments about women vs Bill's actions.   Or Hillary's actions for that matter when it comes to laughing about getting child rapist off on technicalities or her viscous witch hunt over Bill's Rape accusers.   I could point out allegations of Bill's illegitimate black son Danny Williams whose black life doesn't matter to the Clintons.  Or the fact Bill signed the 94 crime bill which sent millions of non violent drug offenders to jail… but not before Hillary referred to them as super predators.

I just realized stopping the list of hypocrisy's was harder than I imagined.  She is a supposed defender of democracy but openly stole the nomination from Bernie .  Let's be clear this isn't some right wing group that put this out… it was Stanford!  I haven't seen Hillary advocate for allowing Jill Stein and Gary Johnson's inclusion into the debate.  For a supposed defender of democracy the fact she is ok spending trillions to bomb brown people to spread democracy abroad while doing everything to stifle it at home.

I I know everyone who has read this has not walked in my shoes but I hope I made a logical argument as to why a rational person, Libertarian or not, would vote for Trump.

In closing Ron Paul insinuates he supports Jill Stein while using hedge words to protect his brand and Jill Stein said Trump is less dangerous than Hillary while using hedge words to protect her brand.

Therefore logic would dictate:  Ron Paul is for Jill Stein and since Jill Stein thinks Trump is less dangerous, then Ron Paul supporters should vote for Trump.

-The Libertarian Advisor