Let Them All Cook (Politically)

We don’t want an election rematch, and therefore we frustrated American citizens should be perfectly fine with letting the election chaos continue.

Let everyone (politically) cook.

Because we’re tired, and it is time to open the floodgates of potential candidates.

(For full disclosure, I’m not supporting any of the third-party candidates I’m about to mention, but I do strongly support their opportunity to not only participate in the upcoming election, but even take part in future debates against eventual-obvious nominees Trump and Biden…ugh. I still say Biden should step down, but the odds of that happening are very slim)

Let Robert Kennedy cook.

Let Cornel West cook (has great ideas, but his campaigning is an absolute mess).

Let the No Labels Party cook….even if its Andrew Yang. Whatever happened to his Forward Party anyway?

Hell, after the censure and the behavior from the Democratic Party throughout the massacres occurring within the Gaza Strip, maybe its time for someone in The Squad to step up and directly challenge Biden. Maybe Rashida Tlaib?

Side-Note: Can someone under 50 PLEASE run for president? I’m tired of all the old men and women with outdated ideas trying to represent the entire country; well except for you Bernie, you’re always allowed to run.

Let Liz Chaney potentially cook.

Let Joe Manchin potentially cook, it would also be extra sweet to see that terrible man crash and burn at the polls from beginning to end.

Part of what has severely damaged the United States is the wildly outdated, dumb, flawed, unrepresentative electoral process that is biased from the very beginning. That dumb process includes the primary system (which wrecked Bernie’s chances in 2020), the requirements of third-party candidates to receive federal funding in the future, biased electoral seasons that never invite non-Republicans/Democrats to debates, and worst of all that fucking Electoral College that has allowed the Republican Party to survive with just the skin of their teeth while preventing the Green Party, Democratic Socialists, Libertarian Party, among others from really being allowed to make an impact and have a platform for people to listen and make their judgements.

As a reminder, the Republican Party has won the national popular vote ONCE since Bill Clinton’s first win way back in 1992—while still nonetheless being at the presidential seat in 3 of the last 7 elections.

As a second reminder, the current Democratic Party deserves this downward spiral just as much as the Republicans because of their ongoing support of the Primary and Electoral College process and the refusal to expand the Supreme Court or change the way we vote for our elected officials. And let’s also not forget what happened with the new Voting Rights Act.

The point is, a rematch is something that nobody outside the money-hungry American newsmedia wants; the American public for the most part is tired of the same damn song, of the same results, of the sheer lack of progress and actual political representation. During the Biden AND Trump years, the approval ratings have been dismal, the national sentiment has remained downright gloomy while we politically have become at our most polarized positions since the Civil War. I say “politically” because if you actually poll all Americans, we share many common beliefs, from climate change to gun control to the political process to even immigration.

We want some change, and if the two major parties will continue politically obstructing their stronger candidates (yes, the Republican Party has some candidates significantly better than Trump and DeSantis), then the voting public is going to look in other directions for the necessary change this country desperately needs.

Even if the third-party candidates have zero chance at actually winning the main prize, they still nonetheless deserve their chance to campaign and debate against the boring repetitive frontrunners so we can begin the overdue process of dismantling the idea of depending on whether Team Blue or Team Red to lead the country. Maybe it will be the beginning of the Green Party’s rise, maybe we will see great ideas from the Forward Party, and maybe somewhere within the independents will emerge a younger political figure that can really shake things up and drum up nationwide support.

But in order for us to break this cycle, there has to be sustained interest and sustained energy towards the idea of other major candidates.

Not even saying to vote elsewhere, what I’m saying is we should spread the donations away from the two major parties and towards other political figures so the debates, interviews, conversations, and exchanges can occur among more than just Trump/Biden and their campaign teams.

The conversation about which direction the country should engage in has to include more voices, it has to include more diversified opinions from beyond the oft-traveled paths. Open the floodgates, and don’t make this a mere rematch, make it a marathon with many runners on equal footing.

Otherwise, we’re likely going to see more of the same political nuisance until that sexy Newsom/AOC ticket come 2028.