If I'm voting on principle I still can't even vote for Gary Johnson
Curious to know more about that. Which principled reasons would prevent a vote for Gary?
As for my part, I'm tempted to vote in "no rulers" though it seems even that vote just goes in the trash. We have a lot of problems, for sure, but I think many of them come from a single issue with our thinking: the belief in authority. We can not delegate rights we do not have and the government is defined as having a monopoly on the initiation of force within a geographic region, something no other human has a right to do so no other human should be able to delegate that function to government. Any time we have false monopolies (especially those maintained by coercion), we have distorted incentives and corruption. I posted a couple other articles you may find interesting here and here. Good luck on your journey and thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hope more people will engage your difficult questions and help us all move towards a future with increased well-being for all.
Gary Johnson isn't a real libertarian, he is only running as one because he needed a platform. Libertarians seem to want to vote for him because he is more libertarian than most republicans, which is why he'll never be the GOP candidate. Im not going to vote for someone who is just using a platform to get votes that he really isn't a part of. Not only that but his ideas don't meet the criteria I would need to vote on principle. For instance, Adam Kokesh would be a person for me to vote for. 2020 can't come soon enough
Yeah, Adam might get the anarchist vote, which is pretty impressive.
I took most of your post as talking about lesser of two evils type thinking. Could it be lesser of three evils? Based on what they did as governors, if I had to vote for an actual human being, I'd go for Gary over Clinton or Trump. He has a track record of moving things closer to where I'd like them to be (no government). Is he a "real" libertarian? Nope. Neither am I. It's more about "lesser of evils" thinking. I probably won't end up voting though, unless I go forward with my "no rulers" write in idea.
The lesser of two evils argument I'm making is only because Gary doesn't stand a chance of actually winning. If he was someone I believed in whether I thought he would win or not Id vote for him. If Gary stood a chance I would pick him, but since he doesn't and I don't want Clinton to win most of all, I have to either vote for Trump or throw my vote. I do like your idea of writing in no rulers, but last election when I went to vote there was no write in option at all