It was also the first time in my life that I had voted FOR a presidential candidate instead of simply AGAINST his  'adversary.  Since then I have been completely free and unfettered from the political process, and view it as a tragic sort of entertainment best viewed from as far away as possible. Since  know so many people who are once again convinced that this is The Most Important Election ever I considered it my civic duty to explain just a bit as to why I will not be participating this time, or the next time, or the time after that.

1) I wrote a book.  This is not so much a shameless plug as an explanation of one rather large step on my journey. I wrote a book called Swindled where I documented how the GOP on local, state and national levels tweaked , bent and in some cases broke federal election law to in order to secure the nomination for Mitt Romney.  Considering how that worked out for them, it's even more remarkable that they would go through so much trouble. The greatest candidate of my lifetime was  in that race, and with a complicit media ('conservative' and 'liberal'), they literally cheated him out of his shot. Writing that book, I became finally convinced that the GOP  cares nothing about liberty; they care about power.