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This is our 2024 Presidential election special part two.

It is to celebrate the kickoff to the political season and discuss the candidates running for President.

Today we will be talking about the candidates in the Democrat and Green Party.

To be respectful of your time we’re going to jump right in.

We will start with the Democrats, and they have running:

President Joe Biden

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Marianne Williamson

The Democrat Party will not be holding primary debates this season.

Joe Biden is the incumbent, and their policy is to support the incumbent.

Politics is a sport with strange rules, but how silly would it be if the AFC announced that Kansas City would represent the conference in the Super Bowl this year only because they won last year.

That is exactly what the Democrat party is doing.

Without any debates to help me make my selection, if my choices are Joe Biden, Robert Kennedy Jr., or Marianne Williamson

I would vote for Marianne Williamson in the democrat primary.

Finally, we will look at the Green Party

And you may be thinking how can there be a third-party in a two-party system?

The Green Party doesn’t have ballot access in every state.  I thought this was unconstitutional and another form of voter suppression.

I went to complain about it, and someone told me it wasn’t worth fighting for their state as it only had three electoral votes.

If I start talking about the electoral college y’all will start to think that the sport is rigged so I’m going to go back to talking about the Green Party.

They don’t have a date set for the party convention where they pick their nominee at this time.

My choice would be Cornell West.

He campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 and 2020 elections.

He and Sanders have similar policy positions but disagree on how to implement them.

This disagreement led to Bernie Sanders endorsing President Biden and Cornell West running in the Green Party.

Some are referring to Cornell West as a spoiler candidate.

To them I would say that Cornell West would have voted for Bernie in 2016.

I would have too. Who spoiling who?

So now we have our three primary winners and we put them on the debate stage.

That’s what we would do using our current system.

But I would like to run an experiment.

We will call it the Political Fan Fiction League or P-F-F-L

In the PFFL there will be seven candidates running for President.

It is recommended that you use the front runner in the Republican, Democrat, and Green Party.

The remaining four candidates can be anyone running for President.

Here are the candidates running for President in the PFFL.

MAGA Republican:          Donald Trump

Democrat:                      Joe Biden

Green:                            Cornell West

Republican:                    Nikki Haley

Independent:                  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He said that he is a Kennedy Democrat. He is not going to win the Democrat Primary.  He should run as an Independent.

New Democrat:                Marianne Williamson

New Republican:              Will Hurd

Will Hurd was not allowed at the first Republican Primary debate because he did not rank high enough in the polls. It’s a shame because he would have added diversity of thought, but every sport has its rules.

In the P-F-F-L Rank Choice Voting (RCV) is used to select the President.

Instead of voting for one of those candidates you rank them in order of preference from one to seven.

I look for two things in a candidate. What is your domestic policy and what is your foreign policy?

For me domestically poverty is my number one issue. My number one issue for foreign policy is promoting peace.

There isn’t a single candidate listed or that I know of who I agree with on both of those policies.

Domestic policy is of a higher importance to me so based on that my rankings are:

1)      Cornell West

2)      Marianne Williamson

3)      Joe Biden

4)      Will Hurd

5)      Nikki Haley

6)      Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

7)      Donald Trump

After everyone has ranked their candidates, we see if any one of them has the majority of the vote

If someone does, they win the election.

If there is no majority, the candidate with the lowest percentage is eliminated.

If your first choice is eliminated your vote goes to your second choice on the list.

The process will continue until there is one candidate with a majority of the vote.

It is still one person one vote, but you rank every candidate when you vote.

The PFFL season ends on November 1, 2024.

Then we will check the results to see how the candidate selected compares to the two candidates running in our current system.

 Leave a comment with your ranking. Your number one choice is who you hope will win, but who do you think will win?

RCV is just another method that can be used for selecting candidates.

There are valid pros and cons to it like anything else.

One of the cons I heard while looking into it was that it is too confusing.

If anyone tells you that something is too confusing, it is time to put your investigator hat on.

You have to find out if the person is saying that the subject is confusing for them, so they can’t explain it to you properly.

Or If they are saying that they understand, but they don’t think that you would be able to understand.

Either way your decision should be to go read up on the subject for yourself.

In our current system we appear to be heading for a Biden versus Trump rematch of 2020.

In 2020 I said that I was voting for Joe Biden because I would rather fight him than to fight Trump.

I voted for Biden and then January 6th happened.

Trump is now being sued by serval states as they are asking to have him taken off of the ballot.

They say his contribution to January 6th was a violation of the 14th Amendment.

(Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma)

((There was a case in Florida, but it has been dismissed.))

I believe this is a more valid reason to keep him off of the ballot than his legal troubles.

I compare it to what happened with Pete Rose and Major League Baseball

They banned him for life because they said that what he did challenged the integrity of the game.

Politics is a sport, but it is too serious to be a game. What president Trump did on January 6th challenged the integrity of our democracy.

As it stands right now there isn’t anything Donald Trump could do to earn my vote in the 2024 election.

Even if he made a beautiful speech addressing all of my policy concerns, I wouldn’t trust him.

President Biden on the other hand is a little different.

I was a registered Democrat up until this year.

I switched to Independent because if the election were held today, I would not vote for Joe Biden.

He gave a good speech last week on “Bidenomics” and his accomplishments.

It’s going to take more than a good speech to get my vote.

What would it take?

1)      Social Security = Increase age to 70 and Increase taxable maximum to 500 thousand dollars.

a.       The retirement age for elected officials should be 70 as well.

2)      Health Care = Americans should get the same health care benefits as a U.S. Senator.

3)      Unemployment = We need a jobs guarantee. 4% unemployment is unacceptable.

4)      Poverty = Raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

5)      Taxes = Create a more equitable tax system.

If Joe Biden were to do those things PRIOR to the 2024 election I would vote for him again.

If I vote for someone else the only spoiler will have been Joe Biden.

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Thanks for reading or listening family.

If you would like to help reform the sport of politics, the first step is to register to vote.

Then ask your local politicians if they would like to earn your vote.

Always make them earn your vote. It’s too precious to give away.

“We the people are the church, and we are the state. What God has joined together let no man separate.”

I AM/The Wretch