Can’t decide who should be the next President? Most Americans are approaching this year’s election feeling they have been given Sophie’s choice, a choice between two bad candidates. Many Americans believe it’s worse than that, in fact Hobson’s choice: the freedom to choose with no real choice, i.e., there’s only one candidate. Answering the following three hypothetical questions might lead you to the same conclusion:
1. Who would you rather be: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? For example, would you prefer to be someone who speaks their mind or someone with a proven history of political expediency? Someone comfortable in their own skin enough to meet constituents in all sorts of friendly and hostile settings, planned or spontaneous, or someone who avoids most public forums because they invoke feelings of nervousness and anxiety? Someone whose life is an open book with nothing to hide, or someone who arguably breaks the law to keep secrets? Someone with a long track record of success and accomplishment and a reputation for getting things done, or someone with no meaningful accomplishments after supposedly a lifetime of dedication to public service? Someone who amassed great wealth working within the same capitalist system that made our country great, or someone whose entire fortune is the result of peddling government influence and the public’s trust for personal gain? Which attributes are closest to those you would want to possess?
2. What would you seek to accomplish if you were elected President? Would you seek to continue along the same path that has brought our country to the brink of disaster, or would you seek to change that political inertia by changing the way our government gets things done? Would your priorities include the elimination of illegal immigration, confronting global terrorism with immediacy and alacrity, and defending American economic interests in the global economy? Or, would they instead focus on gun control, domestic racial, ethnic, and gender issues, and on curbing environmental pollution? Part of being the chief executive of our country is deciding where your time is best spent to serve the most people.
3. If you were stranded on a desert island and given a choice of permanently relocating to two identical, if unknown, places, one headed by Trump, the other by Clinton, which would you choose? This is not as far-fetched an idea as it appears, considering America’s present is increasingly precarious and its future is necessarily unknown, and one or the other is going to be our President. Put yourself in the moment, and be honest with yourself. Remember, once you choose your decision is irrevocable for you and your family.
Your answers to these questions (and acknowledging which candidate’s traits and positions are most consistent with yours) should clarify your selection of a President.
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