By Tim Lynch | April 2nd, 2024 |
My friends, I write to you on the most important topic of our time: the preservation of freedom in the present and its continuation into the future. What kind of nation do we want to be? Given a choice between the arduous and burdensome chore of keeping the torch of liberty burning or the blissfully easy decision to lay down and let someone else decide what is best for us, which path do we take?
Unfortunately, because of the choices of too many people in the latter camp, we are losing our country. What America was always supposed to be is slipping through our fingers at the hands of establishmentarians whose sole desire is the consolidation of power into the hands of as few as possible. The manner in which these bureaucrats have robbed our people of the will to fight is a sinister one that has taken the better part of a hundred and twenty years to complete. Through the unrelenting actions of an increasingly powerful State, they have made our lives more and more difficult. Never so difficult at once as to cause us grave concern, but with precisely-wielded gradualism that has slowly worn us down over the course of two generations of Americans who have grown so tired of having to fight for everything that we have begun to lose the will to fight back at all. One can only be so strong for so long before it’s easier to just give up.
But “give up” is exactly what we cannot do. For many years, our choices have been between someone seen as deeply evil by half the country, and someone seen as slightly less evil by the other half. Ask yourself why you vote for the “lesser of two evils” instead of for a “greater good,” and be honest with your answer. You are afraid not that you will make the wrong choice but that you will make the right choice, and your countrymen will not, and your vote will have been “wasted.” Do not give in to this irrational fear! Friends, you must have courage and sometimes, courage means being the only one to face the right direction when everyone else is facing the wrong one.
In this election, we are once again met with the choice between two candidates of nearly equal lack of fitness to lead a nation as diverse, divided, demoralized, and disenchanted as ours has become. Both men bring out not the best of their respective followers, but the very worst that humanity has to offer. Vitriol, hate, a stunning lack of compassion. These are just a few of the attributes of the political discourse of our time.
But it does not have to be this way. You have a choice, not between two unfit candidates, not between a false binary created specifically by the powerful to limit your choices. Your choice is between “more of the same” and “something different.” You’re told you must choose between two candidates who fall into the prior camp, and that voting for something different makes you selfish for wasting your vote. “If you don’t vote for our guy, you hate America.” There are few statements more preposterous than that.
The faltering state of our union today is not your fault because you voted for “the wrong guy,” but our nation could be made so much stronger if you have the courage to vote for the right one, just this once. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is a candidate for President this year. He has a chance if we give him one. His message is one of hope and healing, of recovery and restoration. Our republic can once again be the city on the hill, a place of peace and prosperity, liberty and justice for all. All you need to do is have the courage to do something different, even if only this one time.
We have it hammered into us by media outlets, politicians, even entertainment figures, and most unfortunately by each other that a vote for an independent candidate is a “wasted vote.” We believe this because we have allowed powerful interests to take control over a system that should always have been ours to use as an extension of our power as individuals. There is a way to break free from this system that keeps us divided and enslaved by the two major political parties, which maintain power only as long as we give it to them. Without us, there is no them. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is a man giving us a chance to separate ourselves from the vitriolic partisan politics that so many of us have criticized in the past decade of toxic American political discourse.
All I ask of you is for your actions to align with your words and your decisions to align with your beliefs, and most of all, I ask that you vote not out of fear of one candidate being worse than the other but for the only candidate offering to be better than both.
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