What Not to Do with Your Vote

I hope a tax will be preferred [to a loan which threatens to saddle us with a perpetual debt], because it will awaken the attention of the people and make reformation and economy the principle of the next election. The frequent recurrence of this chastening operation can alone restrain the propensity of governments to enlarge expense beyond income. --Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1820.
 
Tomorrow is primary election day in my state. I've not lived here long enough to absorb all the politics of this state, so I don't know about local or even the senate primaries (or even if there is a choice). I will do what I always do in these cases...defer to the knowledgeable voter. Why should I throw some random vote out there to jumble up the results, and confuse the candidates? I'm simply not smart enough to vote for any of them. I wish more people knew when they weren't smart enough to pull a lever.
 
It occurs to me that there are millions of people who vote in knee-jerk fashion for one party or the other, for many decades after the party ceases to represent their best interest. In fact it should be clear by now that precious few of the candidates whose names end with (R) or (D) have any of our interests at heart.
 
The biggest problem we face as a country is the uneducated voter. Our founding fathers did not foresee political parties. At first, they seemed like useful consolidation. Now they are an end unto themselves.
 
In the republican primary are people representing all four corners of the debate. The tendency will be for many people to trust the party and their fellow citizens, and pick from the top two presented. The danger is, we will be too clever by half, and elect someone who is indistinguishable from Obama. The party will always present to you the false choices spawned by the cronyism that permeates their world.
 
The point is, voting for the lesser of two evils; think about it; is voting for evil. Vote for a guy who represents your views, or don't pull the lever. There is usually an alternative. We need a game changer here. The "most electable candidates" that survive are, one by one, tearing this country down.
 
Pick the guy they don't "present", and you are doing more with your vote than you can imagine.