I am not a dog trainer, but if America was my dog and it left a mess on my rug as big as America has left us this election, I would put it down.

As an electorate, we are poised to make America's worst decision yet. We can choose between noted baby hating demagogue Donald John Trump and Wall Street backed lie enthusiast Hillary Rodham Clinton. There are also the two top third-party candidates: the Green Party's Jill Stein and the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson. The problem with Johnson and Stein is that the system is built to work against third-party candidates; so whether we like it or not, for now, we are stuck choosing between Clinton and Trump.

Are these candidates even suitable to make the country great again? According to RealClearPolitics, Trump's favorable/unfavorable rating sits at 33.3 percent and 60.8 percent respectively. Clinton’s ratings are only slightly less pathetic sitting at 42.9 percent and 52.7 percent. These are the two people we are tasked with choosing the president. Most of cannot stand either. So why do we tolerate this? Did we do this to ourselves?

For 70 percent of eligible voters who sat at home this primary season, the answer is yes. The Pew Research Center says that 28.5 percent of eligible Americans voted in this primary cycle. Why did we let 28.5 percent of people decide what's best for all? Would you allow this fraction of your household to choose all of the groceries over the next four years? Well...that's what you just did with your country, non-voters. So, for the next four years, we get to eat either a racist, head of rotten, orange lettuce or a stale, processed piece of white, Wonderless bread.

First, let’s touch on the cornucopia of things that are wrong with Trump. He is the epitome of the angry, white man. Trump and his faithful band of “the uneducated”, as he lovingly referred to them after winning the Nevada caucus, are outraged that immigrants, Muslims, babies, the disabled, Mexicans, liberals, the LGBTQ community, socialists and, as always, women are encroaching on their God-given right to be over-privileged ass clowns. Trump's defining characteristic is the inability to let something go. Any criticism will incite a week of his stubby, little fingers pounding out revenge tweets. If Trump doesn't manage to lose this election (he's trying his best), then we’ll have “Dennis the Menace” running around the oval office. Trump in his latest week of debauchery implied at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina that one of his supporters could help him by assassinating his opponent: “... if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know." Any time Trump says “I don’t know” should throw an immediate red flag. He thinks he knows everything. If he says he doesn’t know, he’s covering his ass because he just said something awful again.

It would be nice to have a clear moral choice to oppose Trump but, unfortunately, the alternative is Clinton. While, in most respects, she is a status quo politician; the status quo is terrible. She constantly lies to the American people and she thinks she can get away with it. Her defining characteristic is her inability to accept responsibility for her record and past statements. Time and again, Clinton has changed her position on an issue based on the political winds. She traveled to several countries as Secretary of State praising the Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the TPP, as the “gold standard” of trade deals. Once she saw public opinion, she “evolved.” Will she evolve after the election back into favoring the TPP? The record she doesn’t like to talk about would indicate that the answer is yes.

Julian Assange said it best when speaking to the Green Party convention surmising that this general election amounts to “electoral extortion.” There is a ransom on our presidency. To pay the ransom is to vote for Clinton, who could have constructed this whole charade to make her presidency more palatable. Paying the ransom or going third-party are both valid options in the short term. Both candidates are extremely volatile; a lot can change in three months. In the long term, nothing is going to change if we continue to let 28.5 percent choose our two major candidates. Get active on the local and state levels of politics and stay active. Those are the elections that will affect your life every day.