With just weeks to go until Election Day, it’s time to take a good hard look at our presidential candidates. On one hand, we have Donald Trump, whose ludicrous logorrhea about migrants eating residents’ pets in Ohio doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that he should be in charge of immigration policy or have access to the nuclear codes. He outspent Obama during his first turn, raising the federal deficit - and with it the national debt - to astronomical levels. Trump also instituted “stimulus” checks during the pandemic, which directly created the runaway inflation we experienced over the last few years, eating away at hard-working citizens’ spending power. 

On the other hand, we have Kamala Harris, a candidate voters rejected during the 2020 primaries. Why? Recall, Dear Reader, that as Tulsi Gabbard pointed out, Harris has a troubling history as an overzealous prosecutor, gleefully locking away black and brown Americans for minor, nonviolent offenses. She also withheld evidence which would have exonerated an innocent man on death row until the courts forced her hand and kept people incarcerated in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling to use for free labor - making her a literal slave driver! This is to say nothing about her plan to tax unrealized gains, which would kill all investment and drive the economy into catastrophic ruin, or her ineptitude regarding resolving the border crisis, a task specifically assigned to her by Biden. 

Clearly neither of these corrupt creatures is fit to sit in the Oval Office, but you have to vote for one of them, right? Wrong, Dear Reader. There is another: Chase Oliver, the Libertarian Party nominee. Chase understands that government is too big, too bossy, and too expensive, and he has plans for reducing inflation, resolving the border crisis, enacting criminal justice reform, and putting more money in your pocket. At 39, he resonates with younger generations, particularly concerning housing affordability, and aims to revive the American Dream. This “armed and gay” candidate, as he refers to himself, forced the Senate runoff in Georgia in 2022, demonstrating his appeal to voters. Perhaps some of that appeal comes from the belief that the billions of dollars of tax revenue collected each year should be primarily spent here in the US instead of everywhere else, and that we need to quit playing world policeman. You can learn more about him and his policy ideas at www.votechaseoliver.com. 

Unfortunately, New York State has made it almost impossible for third party candidates to get on the ballot, so Chase’s name won’t be printed. However, you can and should write him and VP candidate Mike ter Maat in at the bottom. The Libertarian Party of New York will gain ballot access if enough people do so, and that will empower us to hold the Democrats and Republicans accountable for their policy failures, and empower us to run candidates against them. Help us help your parties improve: write in Chase Oliver this November.