The presidential election appears to be a choice between candidates with questionable histories and personas. So we will vote, perhaps reluctantly, for one of them.

It appears that no matter how offensive these people are to us, given their emails, locker room talk, and whatever else that comes along, the voters and pundits on high who object to their own party candidates dismiss all of Trump’s and Hillary’s failings and cite the fact that one of them will be appointing one or more Supreme Court justices.

That’s the big default issue that we’re all supposed to be concerned with. So it appears that we’re really being shocked into doing our civic duty by voting for either a conservative or a liberal U.S. Supreme Court judge.

The people who are voting for the next Supreme Court justice rather than the President of these United States include Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and a huge host of others.

So you can forget about who ends up in the White House and who will be discussing immigration, family values, women’s rights, child care for working mothers, transparency of policing diverse communities, gun related violence, climate change, infrastructure collapse, terrorism, loss of manufacturing, international affairs, global wars, educational loans and general career and economic opportunities.

No! None of these are important issues, according to the news anchors and pundits. The bottom line is “whoever retains the White House will elect the next Supreme Court Justice.”

That fact seems to be all that’s significant, no matter how despicable you think your candidate might be.

So this Nov. 8 we’re all supposed to hold our noses and X marks the spot for the next Supreme Court justice in a box that’s normally reserved for the next president of the United States!

Jerry Taylor

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