John McAfee for President
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And the scrolling seems off or hijacked in some way, on the "How to Vote" page, it's the digital equivalent of having your breaks cut.
McAfee can't do what Trump is doing, because he's not actually famous on any meaningful scale. Relatively few Americans know who he is or would recognize him. They also would be unlikely to automatically associate the name with the anti-virus product, "McAfee" means nothing to most of the population. Practically anyone in the US born between 1940 and 2000 knows who Donald Trump is.
Perhaps initially, but its not true now.
The reason Trump is killing it in the poles is that he can't be bought, and he doesn't pull punches and he speaks his mind. Something people who are fed up with the political correctness have been starving for. He's also resonating because he's talking about doing things voters want to hear - securing the border, getting tough with China, creating jobs, and taking out ISIS.
1. The people who like what the Democrats under Obama have been doing. They are likely to support Clinton or Sanders at this point... or Biden or Gore or Kerry, etc. should one of them get drafted. They won't be interest in Trump, who is attacking their guy.
2. The people who consider themselves Democrat but aren't crazy about what the party has been doing the last 6 years.
3. The people who definitely don't like what the Democrats are doing and are voting Republican to try to change things. Actual conservatives are completely disillusioned with the GOP and people who see them as a way to check the Democrats are also being very let down. But, when you only have two evils, you have to figure out which is the lesser.
4. Establishment Republicans who like the status quo.
Group 4 consists of people in office and U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other interests who are milking the system, but can be discounted in terms of actual votes (but not in terms of their very powerful influence). They are backing Jeb Bush and definitely don't like Trump.
Group 1 also won't be interested in Trump.
Group 2 may be attracted by Trump.
Group 3 will probably be attracted by Trump, and like him (like me) even if they (also like me) don't think he'd actually be a good President. Trump, despite his flaws, is a much better cheerleader for the GOP than almost anyone inside the GOP.
Group 2 and 3 are most of the country. If you don't, there is no good alternative because the Republicans have pretty much pre-emptively surrendered on everything and it's clear the party honchos like the establishment guy (Bush).
So who can you look to? Trump plays the media like a fiddle, and he's naturally attracting most of the attention, but Carson, another non-politician is #2 in the polls. Fiorina is rising quickly as well.
No one likes the GOP right now.
Correction - nobody likes the current two party system.
Not the best name association.
I think the most the average American knows about him is that he was fleeing the country because he was being investigated for murder and that he was behaving strangely. I am not sure that the majority of people would look into it any further.
[NSFW, Rated "R"] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8
Edit: To clarify, the Uses This interview was done while he was being threatened in Belize. That's why it's all paranoid.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/14/04/06/2344201/interv...
> I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot.
That's a pretty smart move. Sex, drug, weapons... A bunch of things a respectable company wouldn't want to be associated to.
It is the ultimate conspicuous consumption item.
>He is a murderer
Well that is still not proven and the government of Belize is not exactly the most trustworthy entity about this, so in no way is it this clear. Even if it was true, let's face it - after their presidency, every former president is a murderer.
>He is a lunatic and insane
And Hillary Clinton is not?
>He is paranoid
Well at least he's more paranoid about the STATE than about the CITIZENS so that would sway things around a bit.
However, I'd love to hear his stance on abortion, gay marriage, etc. I presume he'd be quite liberal, again, a point for him.
But yeah, sadly, he doesn't even stand a chance.
But I still think he'd have been better off pursuing the nomination of an established (albeit "3rd party") party than starting a new party from scratch this late in the game. That is, unless his ideology truly is completely different from that of any existing party.
While I think that Stephen Colbert could make a fine president, John McAfee; while playing a similar game, could not.
Still, I would probably vote for anyone who isn't a warmonger (tragically, doesn't seem like either major party will nominate someone who fits this criterion)
And there are various citations of unnamed Belize officials, stating that he's no longer even a person of interest in that case.
> Raphael Martinez of Belize's Ministry of National Security said no charges had been filed in the case and Mr McAfee was simply "a person of interest".
> "It's too early in the investigation," he told the Associated Press. "To say he is a suspect would be a bold statement."
And in 2015 "not a person of interest anymore".
If they had anything tangible, why wasn't he charged?
TLDR version: mentally unstable teenage girlfriend described as repeatedly wanting people killed (including - according to both parties - shooting at McAfee at one stage) and explicit statements that she would kill people if they killed her dog or if asked to by McAfee. Neighbour who had complained about McAfee's dogs killed the day after the dogs are reportedly poisoned.
Looks even more unlikely to be coincidence when McAfee later independently asserts that actually he did believe the neighbour had poisoned his dogs shortly before being murdered https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc...
Reading the descriptions of some of McAfee's other activities, the only real surprise in the whole tale that it took Belize security forces so long to go after him.