Third-party candidates like Wyllie offer a viable choice
To the editor:
I have been watching with keen interest the massive demonstrations in Hong Kong regarding lack of real choice in politics. Chinese citizens are offered the illusion of choice only after their incumbent politicians have selected the candidates. Sound familiar? Where is our outrage?
Throughout my lifetime of 57 years and for decades before, two dominant, entrenched parties and the compliant and complicit mainstream media have limited our choices to Tweedledee and Tweedledum. With the extraordinary and refreshing exception of the father and son team of Ron and Rand Paul, no one has found a chink in the armor wide enough to slip through.
Adrian Wyllie is facing insurmountable obstacles in his campaign for Florida Governor with relentless determination. It is no accident that you have never heard of him. The two ruling parties continue to raise the threshold for polling numbers in qualifying for televised debates and the obedient media cooperate by refusing to mention his name, especially when broadcasting poll numbers.
Ross Perot’s appearance in the national debates was such an embarrassment to the ruling elite in 1992 that they vowed it would never happen again. It hasn’t.
While riots in the streets would be exciting, the least we can do is call and politely but firmly harass our local media into including Adrian Wyllie in the debates. I have done my part, will you please help? Our future literally depends on it.
Kim Hawk, Libertarian activist
North Fort Myers