My Brief Time as a Presidential Elector

In college, I was still in the early stages of becoming politically aware. I don’t think I would have classified myself as left or right, liberal or conservative by the 1996 presidential election, and indeed ended up opting for an obscure third party in the Natural Law Party and their candidate John Hagelin. His stance on things caught my eye and he seemed like a chill, interesting dude. He stood for “the development of the human element.” He spoke often of how we practice “disease care” rather than “health care” and that the way to uplift human behavior is through education to develop creativity and intelligence. “The programs [we tend to promote] are prevention-oriented, forward-looking, scientifically-based, humane by their very nature, and unifying, even on issues like abortion,” he said in a stump speech. I liked what I heard and was very much in the “no major parties” mindset at the time. Alas, I was one of only 113,671 people to cast my vote for the Hagelin ticket (that’s 0.12%…

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