How to choose this year’s president

Many people on social media are flooding me with political propaganda this month; I myself have been guilty of sharing some little things and I understand: you want your candidate to win, or you hate them both and you want to rebel.

The problem is, 90% of this stuff is rubbish (or satire) on both sides.

So who do you support when both options make you want to cover your nose?

Hillary’s integrity issues are completely different from Mr. Trump’s, but on their own merits they are deeply disgusting to many of us anyway. While Hillary’s skeletons have until recently been under lock and key behind closed doors, Trump has played each and every one of his melodramatic personal mistakes and predatory businesses in the bright light of the public eye.

This doesn’t really paint the idyllic scene we expected, but it is the result of our own choices, whether we want to admit it or not; as a people we ultimately control how it ends.

If you didn’t want Trump or Hillary, the time to decide that was during the primaries, so there’s really no one to blame but ourselves for this lose-lose option we have this year.

So what do we make of this choice? I can’t believe it came to this, but: Ignore integrity … That’s correct. There’s little to have on both sides, so if your most important quality in a leader is integrity, then your candidate never made it out of the door this year.

Instead, look at these qualities and make a decision:

• Who gives you the Supreme Court options you want?
• Who gives you the immigration policy you want?
• Who defends the social policies that you value so much?

The list goes on and on, but the fact is that this year, the character has been put aside. So what do we have left? We are really left with only one defining question: What will they do for or for the country if they win?

Many of you hate one or both and are foaming at the mouth to point out all your flaws on both sides, but it doesn’t make sense. To some extent, that may be personally cathartic, but we all have an A vs. B choice to make this year unless you choose another option and effectively withdraw from the process and let the rest of us choose for you … Heck, as much as half the nation is left out of almost every election and not even even bothering to sign up, so what are a few million more watching from the bench huddled with their favorite lost cause?

The choice is pretty clear when you look at the policies each candidate promotes. No matter which side you are on personally, this year integrity will not be a factor because they are both critically flawed people and they make us pray to God that the choice we make doesn’t turn out terribly wrong for everyone in the end.

It does not matter that; One thing is almost always true: you won’t change your mind and I can’t change yours either, but at least let’s be adults and keep the conversation civil. Let’s stop insulting each other just because we choose one “bad choice” over the other. Let’s not be like our current candidates; Let us be civil to one another and respect each other’s decisions in the way that each of us exercises our collective right to vote on our own conscience.

You may think that I am an idiot and I may think that some people are confused and betrayed, but our choice of policy does not make us good or bad, it only makes us Americans; doing the best we can with what we have.

I have seen family members disown each other for political opinions and that is sheer nonsense. When the dust settles, we are all in this together and we are good or bad; We will all end up paying the same price for our collective decision in the end, whatever that is.

Ultimately, you’ll do one of three things: plug your nose and choose A or B, or run from the decision and sit back and watch the rest of us choose for you. Don’t fool yourself; choosing another candidate IS sitting outside.

Just remember: every time we make a decision, the people of this country take risks and the hope we all share is that by coming together as a nation to exercise that right, we can also help make this nation better and stronger for all. us and our children too.

God bless the voters; everyone …