None of the Above

The elite of the GOP wants anyone but Donald Trump.  They are afraid that he is both unelectable, and that his presence at the top of the ticket will affect the downstream races. But what will happen if Ted Cruz is at the top of the ticket?

Right now, the GOP is not a party which believes in anything that benefits the common person.  They want to destroy a healthcare system designed by a conservative think tank, taking away health care from people who'd never have access to it if the ACA had never passed.  They want to take away a social safety net from people who need it, saying the "sins" of a small minority of abusers excuse the punishment of all. They are are party who supports radicalism over conservatism, looking to restore a status quo that never existed.

When Joe Scarborough (a noted conservative) from the "Morning Joe" show openly states that neither party has bothered to address the needs of people earning under $50,000, something is very wrong.  To me, it is the very greed for power which causes most presidential candidates to such on the tit of Wall Street in order to get elected.  Once they accept any Wall Street money, they are owned by the big banks - and banks have no heart. Everything and everyone is just a number to them, and the poor are simply liabilities to be scrubbed from the balance sheet.

Sadly, it looks like Hillary Clinton will be the likely opponent of whoever the GOP selects. Trump offends me, but Cruz horrifies me even more.  Neither are fit to serve in this country's highest office.  Hillary is owned by Wall Street, and she can't be trusted to do much more than line her own coffers.

So....

Unless Bernie Sanders is nominated (and he has big flaws as well), I want none of the above.  Neither party deserves votes when they are trying to game the election to prevent the peoples' choices from being on the ticket.  One could argue that Bernie is not the choice of the Democrats.  But with the way the game was rigged to coronate Hillary, who knows what would have happened if the Democratic party had not shown such bias?  

I still have hopes for a Sanders vs. Trump election.  But the way it's going, we will never know which direction the people really want this country steered - and we will never have a chance to check and balance the power of Wall Street....