Free and Brave or Beaten and Scared?

Suppose two guys told you to pick which one of them was going to hit you in the head with the flat of a shovel then steal all your money. Both guys were big and strong with long records of hitting people in heads with shovels and stealing their money. Both guys would tell you what a great sacrifice you were making for your country, maybe one more eloquently than the other. You might even think one of them would hit you slightly less hard than the other, but you knew unequivocally both would hit you hard and steal your money. Suppose the biggest way they differentiated themselves was by offering different sized bandages and drugs to treat your wound. Which would you vote for?

I hope you said you would never vote for a person to hit you in the head with the shovel and steal your money, even if that meant the one you believed would hit you less hard lost. Please keep that position with you on election day

Is this the land of the free and home of the brave or the land of the beaten down and running scared? The American people are in an abusive relationship with government. They're afraid to walk away, so every election they come back for another beating. It doesn't matter if that beating is administered from the left or right, it's a beating none the less. The only rational response is for us to end the relationship.