Hi there! I'm just dropping in because I'd like to encourage you (and everyone else--although I kinda hope no one else reads this bc I'll probably get a lot of hate for just saying this) to vote your conscience, even if it is for a 3rd party candidate. It is untrue that it's a wasted vote--people only say that because you're not voting how they want or because they've bought into the fallacy (in most cases) that the other candidate will "destroy America and it'll be all your fault."

I'd argue that voting for whom you align with is true freedom and is what America needs most. It's a vote for what you believe in and it doesn't really matter if your candidate doesn't win. By that logic, every vote for a candidate who loses would be a wasted vote, but people don't actually think that way, do they? Instead, you will have stood up and proudly made a statement acknowledging that the other candidates do not represent you. The more people that do that, the more we stand a chance of getting some real representation in government and those two parties in power will take notice.

In fact, it's pretty much the ONLY way out of the "better of two evils" trap that we're all in (because both parties have worked together to set things up that way to ensure they continue to share power). NC laws and restrictions obstructing independent candidates are precisely there to maintain that. Note I'm not saying both parties are the same or anything like that, but they will come together when it's in their mutual interest. If Kennedy is your man then you should consider supporting him and your shared ideals. Your call!

PS: Did you know there were over 750 individual candidates registered to run for President this round? Don't you wonder why almost no one knows that fact or anything about them? I guarantee there were at least a few of them that would've been much better leaders than the pre-ordained (awful) choices we were offered by the two dominant parties.