Aren’t we sick of having to choose to keep or toss our government? In the end, that’s all America is ever given as our options for election.
When you really look at it, that’s what we are stuck choosing: Do we keep who we have, or do we get option two. And that is frustrating. We should have more than one set of options.
Imagine if you went to university and you could only choose between an English degree and a math degree. No computer science, no law, no biology, nothing else.
Or imagine if you went to the grocery store and you could only choose between chicken and beef. No pork, no fish, no turkey. It’s a ridiculous choice.
Choosing between only two options is not much of a choice at all. We live in a free market economy where we can choose which products we like.
We can choose between Tesla and Toyota, Honda and Ford. We can choose from so many options which restaurant we want to eat at, and yet, when it comes to politics, we’re told it’s a choice between two options.
We live in a closed political market where we are told to choose between Democrats or Republicans, and any other option isn’t viable.
But imagine if we treated our elections as a free market? What good ideas would arise if we could choose from more than two options? Wouldn’t that be nice to be able to have more than two options? America is like a patient sitting in the optometrist’s chair, where the doctor shows us two lenses — both blurry. “Is it one or two? One or two?” Neither option works, but we are stuck between these choices, continually flipping between the two.
But if we had more lenses, we could find one so we could see clearer.
Jacob Bellows, Centerville
