{"id":20085,"date":"2020-09-24T07:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=20085"},"modified":"2020-09-24T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:52:32","slug":"vote-for-me-im-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/vote-for-me-im-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Me, I&#8217;m Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: calc(var(--rem) * 1px * 1.0625); letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Vote for Me, I&#8217;m Nobody<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I want to introduce myself. You don&#8217;t know me, but you have often wished you did. I don&#8217;t belong to a political party. I don&#8217;t owe allegiance to any country. I&#8217;m not patriotic but I&#8217;m not antipatriotic. I don&#8217;t belong to any country; I don&#8217;t owe Anyone anything. And I&#8217;m a qualified candidate; I can run for any office, in any country, state, province, county, city, town, or village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/nobody.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Essays\" width=\"314\" height=\"288\" \/>If you ever found yourself voting for the lesser of two evils, and I know you have, I&#8217;m your candidate. I don&#8217;t need your money. I&#8217;m not taking campaign donations, I don&#8217;t need a party affiliation, but I&#8217;m your candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I am qualified to run for president, prime minister, governor, congress, parliament, your mayor &#8211; you name the office, I&#8217;m qualified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The next time you vote for a candidate you really don&#8217;t want or like- but want and like better than the alternative candidates, you&#8217;ll think about me. I know you will. Or I know you should.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But you won&#8217;t find me on the ballot anywhere, but I should be on the ballot everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m nobody but I want to be your candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m the candidate that gives you, for once, a real choice. And if I win, you win. If I lose, you lose. It&#8217;s a WIN-WIN you see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now imagine that I was on your ballot. You had three others on the ballot besides me. You really don&#8217;t like any of the others, but one belongs to your preferred political party, but she&#8217;s not a real choice &#8211; just the lesser of three evils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here, let me give you an example. Here&#8217;s your ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Patty Peasoup (R)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Maggie Marker (D)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Clifton Cheeseball (I)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Really? Do you really want any of those folks? Do you? Put me on the ballot and you might get somebody you can feel good about voting for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Patty Peasoup (R)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Maggie Marker (D)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Clifton Cheeseball (I)<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Nobody (*)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now, if Patty, Maggie, and Clifton don&#8217;t excite you, you have a choice. You can vote for Nobody &#8211; that&#8217;s me. And if Nobody wins, the parties must come up with new candidates and you get to vote all over again for SOMEBODY you really want. If Nobody (that&#8217;s me!) wins again, then the political parties better produce candidates you really feel good about because Nobody will win until Somebody wins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And when somebody wins it will be somebody you really want, not someone who was elected because they were the lesser of all the available evils and you didn&#8217;t have a real choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You should make sure that I am on the ballot everywhere, for every office, and for every election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I am your candidate of choice when you don&#8217;t really have a choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And if you don&#8217;t listen to Nobody &#8211; that&#8217;s me &#8211; then the next time you vote, you can&#8217;t blame me if you don&#8217;t have Nobody to vote for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Only you can put Nobody on the ballot. You can demand that Nobody is on the ballot everywhere, every election, every time. If you don&#8217;t, you may never get Somebody you really want to vote for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Make sure that Nobody is on every ballot everywhere for every election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m qualified for every office from the prime minister, to the president, to the governor, to the mayor, to the sheriff. I am qualified and ready to run in any country for any office. I can run anywhere &#8211; in any country, state, province, or territory. I can run in any city, town, or village. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m Nobody. Don&#8217;t you think I should be on the ballot everywhere?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When you vote for Nobody, you have a much better chance you will finally get Somebody you really want to vote for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But I cannot do it by myself. I&#8217;m just Nobody. Only you can make sure that I,\u00a0 Nobody, is on all your ballots in every election, every time. And because it&#8217;s your vote, I know you want it to count.\u00a0 And the only way that is ever going to happen is if Nobody is on the ballot in every election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Remember this, my friends&#8230; Only when Nobody is on the ballot can you be certain you&#8217;ll always have Somebody you really want to vote for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m Nobody and you don&#8217;t know me, but I&#8217;m quite certain you&#8217;ll wish you did. Think of me the next time you vote for a candidate you don&#8217;t really want or like, only because you like the other candidates even less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Make sure I&#8217;m on your ballot and vote for me &#8211; Nobody &#8211; until Somebody you really want comes along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m Nobody and you may never get somebody to vote for until you vote for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Vote for Me, I&#8217;m Nobody I want to introduce myself. You don&#8217;t know me, but you have often wished you did. I don&#8217;t belong to a political party. I don&#8217;t owe allegiance to any country. I&#8217;m not patriotic but I&#8217;m not antipatriotic. I don&#8217;t belong to any country; I don&#8217;t owe Anyone anything. 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