I think you should vote. To me, this election is not Trump v Hillary. There are too many other things at stake.

The Supreme Court, for a major example, Hillary regards Ruth Bader Ginsburg as her model Supreme Court justice, and I think Ginsburg is one of the worst judges ever appointed. Trump's potential nominees — he named 20 and 11 are approved by the Cato Institute, a think tank to which I give high respect. The poorest nominee by Trump would be better than any nominee by the Queen of Corruption.

This same thing will happen down the line of regulatory agencies such as the EPA, Labor Board, etc., all of which have been strangling business even more than taxes have.

As for the defense of the United States, Peace through Strength, the Eisenhower policy, will be the Trump policy. I expect Trump will negotiate with potential enemies and adversaries from a position of strength. But negotiate. Hopefully Trump will make Russia an ally to go after ISIS and America's endless wars will come to an end.

Where Clinton will continue and expand all of the policies that produced the unacceptable present, Trump will get rid of as much of the Establishment (Dems and GOP) as possible and change Washington as it has not been changed since Ronald Reagan rode in from the West. I love his expression of “Drain the Swamp.” This is a tremendous threat to those in power and they will lie, cheat, and steal to keep their power.

For these, and other, reasons I think we need to rally around Trump.

I will enthusiastically vote for Donald Trump. I find most of the arguments against him to be regarding his, shall we say "bombastic" style. They never mention anything regarding what he has been saying on the campaign trail. Do they even listen to him? The people who continue to blast him never mention how he's grown and learned this past year. And, it is obvious that he has. The idea FOR ONCE in our lifetimes to have a true CITIZEN legislator president is very appealing to me. The fact that he has proven that he is a fighter, fiscally responsible, and makes the case day in and day out that he actually does care about America and the American people is compelling, too. I think he's kind of a verbal bumbler and he's certainly not perfect. However, he speaks from the heart and that heart appears to be a bit pugnacious but an actual AMERICAN heart. My two cents.

You must do as your conscience dictates. If the consequences of this election were not so serious not voting might be an option. But Mrs. Clinton and her partner in crime are so very evil that having her as president would truly be a disaster, not only for America, but for the world. Her administration would not merely be something that could rectified in four years, but the start of anything goes in the sense that the winner will be whoever is the most conniving , backstabbing, murderous, scoundrel.

Do as you wish as a free person... BUT don't lie to yourself about "following your conscience".

If you want Hillary to win you must any of the following:
Vote for Hillary
Vote for anybody but Trump
Don't vote at all.

Any of those actions are either a direct vote for Hillary, or passively voting for Hillary while trying to hide your passive acquiescence of her rise to power in some warm cloak of excuses.

Otherwise Vote Trump!

If you look at it rationally, you have 2 binary choices...
Either you actively or passively help Hillary win.
Or you actively help Trump win.

You can lie to yourself all you want but those are the choices. Accept Hillary's rule or Vote Trump.

You should do what is in your own ethical self interest.
Not voting , may allow you to not sanction the winner , but it won't help our country stop the leftist statist collectivists that currently have a strangle hold on our rights.

When the choice is "Who will do the least harm?" The decision is unpleasant but unavoidable. Trump is right about one thing, the system is rigged against honest politicians (that may be an oxymoron), the fix is in and has been for years. We have the illusion of democracy and, unfortunately, that is good enough for some people.

Your choice, maybe justified is not the correct word, however. Are you justified in allowing Hillary to dismantle the Constitution and sell access to the Presidency. Actually, i guess justified, is right, IF you have done all the homework and find that letting Hillary win is okay with you based on research. Just don't feel justified to complain if your lack or research end up not allowing you to own property, as is coming with Agenda 21. Your choice, your responsibility to suck it up.

Of course you are. If there is no candidate that represents your views, you should not be compelled to consent to one who does not.

Please watch "The Enemies Within." If you don't vote for Trump this election, you might not ever have an opportunity to vote for a Rand Paul, Gary Johnson, etc. The Dems (Socialist and Communist) are going to be registering refugees and illegals in great numbers. 75% of them vote Dem.

No. The self-made business emperor will not arrest you for criticizing him. The seller of offices and policies will. She once did it, too. Witness the arrest of a videographer on a trumped-up charge.

Your choice, as I see it, is to try to stop the corruptocracy, or to allow the nation to collapse and be re-formed into whatever might follow.

Are we a nation ready to listen to, and act on, John Galt's speech?

Not voting at all changes nothing in the electoral process while voting for some lunatic third party candidate does. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Clinton this is completely understandable. If you can't bring yourself to then vote for Trump then do us a favor and just stay home.

Trump is closer to correct than Clinton and I have no fundamental issue with his policies. Not only that, but Trump has more to lose if this country loses. I believe that despite his lack of decorum or consistent philosophical principles, I can count on his own self-interest to do the job.

The reason not to vote for Trump vanishes under scrutiny. Though I dislike certain behaviors exhibited by Trump, I cannot thereby justify a refusal to act. The reason is that by not voting I give license to an altruist, moocher, or looter to vote more taxes, regulation, and chaos into the body politic. Knowing this is the outcome, not voting makes me an altruist. Enlightened self-interest dictates I vote for Trump. This is not about a conservative bandwagon, or an anti-liberal bandwagon, or even an anti-Hillary bandwagon. This is a vote to slow the tide of cultural self-destruction. This is a vote to apply the tourniquet, however painful, and stop the hemorrhaging of the past eight years.

Ayn Rand has a vivid example of the mystical mental construct where an individual confronted with a river of molten lava chants prayers to the supernatural to assuage the flow. To refuse to vote for Trump in this instance would amount to the same. Thank you all for your feedback. My vote is now cast.

It isnt often that we get a clear cut choice in the presidential election. Hillary will advance us towards socialism and government control and cronyism. Trump will put the brakes on all those things, at least somewhat. He will buy the country time to let the freedom lovers and libertarians to educate the populace to not WANT socialism.

If you dont vote or vote third party this time, you will essentially let Hillary take over, since Trump is in the #2 spot in the election. Its your decision.

My grandfather told me many years ago that if you don't vote, you have no right to complain. It was obvious he voted in every election because he complained all the time...

I've long been a quiet supported of Galt's Gluch however this is my first post; here goes...

I've been watching Trump for decades now but only in this campaign season grown to support him as Commander in Chief. I've told many skeptics since early in the primary that while I don't imagine him as a particularly savvy or bright leader, perhaps more "street smart" than anything else, I do think he is courageous enough to hire the best and brightest to advise him. IMHO, he does not have what it would take to build the commercial "empire" he leads. Perhaps there was some luck in addition to financial support from his family, already successful but far from empire status.

What I like about Trump is that he will (IMO) go out and find the "best and brightest" ultimately building a team that will provide the best council and advice. I can't deny that I do hold some concern regarding his use of that advice.

I do not believe, in fact past performance indicates clearly to me, that the HRC leadership team would be made up of the same advisors. In fact, preference would more likely not be "courageous" in nature; more likely, to use an honorable word in a dishonorable context, preference would be for "loyalists" more trusted to protect the emperor and foundation.

I find myself confident that Trump will have the courage to bring into his administration folks smarter than himself and that he will listen to their advice. I can't ask for more than that.

Given there is no Whig candidate this year, vote for your choice of Republican.

I think this point had been made. There are two contexts:
1) If not in a swing state, your vote will not effect. the electorial process. Then voting for Johnson or McMullen will reduce the visible support for the two parties that need a strong 2x4 to the head. This helps communicate to their party leadership and the public at large that we consider them unfit for our needs.
2) If in a swing state, vote for Trump for at least the Supreme Court consequences. And then there's dealing with federal power abuse in every realm: healthcare, energy, drugs, education, wages, marriage, what bathroom to use, who has to make a cake for whom.

I early voted for myself yesterday. Yes, you are justified.

Sure, voting isn't and shouldn't be mandatory.

I am voting based on preference of policies, neither candidate really has me all that excited.

The country is controlled by two major corporations. No not Wal-Mart and Exxon. The country is under the rule of the Democrat and Republican parties which are private corporations.

The only way to fight this rule is to eliminate the party system and their hand in your pocket called the income tax. The only fair tax is one of consumption with receipts going to the States, not the Federal government. Until such time, the Trump corporation is strong enough to compete with the Corrupt party corporations and perhaps start the ball rolling towards our original system That would indeed make America great again.

If you want to know what we need to do read the material here at http://www.TheSocietyProject.org

In love, it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. It's similar in voting, specially when you have the Supreme Court at stake.

If one is not a consenting citizen, and thus a non-voter, the question is moot. If one is a consenting citizen, and does not exercise the franchise (political liberty), the loss of endowed rights is for naught.

Most libertarians strongly favor things like the following:
- massive tax reduction (and simplification)
- cancel all unconstitutional executive actions
- impose term limits on Congress (via Amendment)
- a hiring freeze on federal employees (to reduce it by attrition)
- ban bureaucrats and congressional staffers from lobbying (for 5 years)
-reduce the number of federal regulations by at least half.

also:
- lift restrictions on energy production and infrastructure (e.g. pipelines)
- cancel payments to U. N. “climate change” funds, and use the money ofr clean water and environmental cleanup
- renegotiate NAFTA and TPP to insure free trade (both ways)
- end Federal involvement in education
- protect Second Amendment rights of the individual
-bring American troops home from places like Belgium, Japan, and Baghdad.

and:
- repeal the “Affordable Care Act” (Obamacare)
- allow citizens to purchase insurance across state lines
-allow tax-deductible Health Savings accounts
- cut red tape at FDA (especially for approval of life-saving drugs)
-allow veterans to receive private treatment when VA fails to provide it

Most libertarians favor all or most of the above.
Gary Johnson proposes many of the above.
Hillary Clinton opposes ALL of the above.
Donald Trump has proposed and promised ALL of the above.
(Yes, this list was compiled from Trump’s “contract” in Gettysburg, but a lot of it sounds like Johnson.)

Unfortunately, there are some whose thought processes are so prejudiced by their visceral dislike for the man, that they refuse to even consider what a Trump Presidency would actually be like! Comparisons with Hitler and Brownshirts are utterly ludicrous — except that Hillary Clinton's White House would be far more fascist (and far more dangerous) than Donald Trump's could ever be. Furthermore, a Clinton Administration is certain to increase foreign military interventions and risk nuclear war, while curbing free speech, freedom of association, and free enterprise at home.

Lest we forget, the word “liberal” no longer has anything to do with LIBERTY, while the word “conservative” increasingly refers to conserving individual rights and insisting that the Constitution is meant to restrict Federal powers.

As for myself, I will probably cast my vote for Gary Johnson once again -- but this time it will be largely because I am disenfranchised via the corrupt winner-takes-all system that prevents citizens in my Congressional District from choosing our own Presidential Elector (who would most likely have been a Trump elector, had the politicians in Albany not stolen our vote!).

N.B. Voting for Gary johnson will also help the LP to receive Federal funds -- which is hardly a "libertarian" reason!

I've said this, before. Trump reminds me of the bullies who used to beat me up in school (so, I joined the Marines). In "good conscience" I shouldn't vote for him, but for my right to "keep and bear", for the possibility of the SCOTUS making sane rulings about "sex" issues and to keep a pathological liar out of the White House, I am willing to be flexible.

All I know, for sure, is that, with Trump, I may still retain the opportunity to improve things, four years from now. With Clinton...