It’s election day in the United States.
There has been no shortage of heated posturing and rhetoric, but not one candidate has addressed the critical issue of liberty for the Yeti and other maligned beasts.
So much for universal suffrage!
The staff at Beer Yeti chalks this heinous omission up to the entrenched party structures and media that wield unwarranted amounts of power when it comes to deciding what issues merit public debate.
In some sense it is to be expected that Yeti freedoms would not be taken seriously by candidates for the presidency. Neither of the major party candidates have been particularly interested in protecting the freedoms of their own constituents up to now, so our hopes that the denizens of the Himalayas will receive better treatment are pretty low.
For a brief moment we thought that one of the vice-presidential candidates would take up this noble cause. Here is why: someone who can scan the Russian horizon from their back door obviously has detailed knowledge of that country’s geography ( and policies), and would therefore know that Russia backs up to China. Likewise, China neighbors Tibet and Nepal, which are the primary territories of the Himalayan Yeti. So logically, the candidate who lives adjacent to Russia should be the most outspoken advocate for a creature that lives only two countries away. Alas, that hope was dashed to the ground early in the campaign season.
Maybe if the Yeti were somehow tied in with a costly war, the Patriot Act, or wealth redistribution his rights would be considered? Only time-and widespread, dedicated grassroots activism- will tell.
In light of this situation, our staff urges concerned United States citizens to form a Third -or Fourth-Party supporting real liberty for all creatures, or start supporting one that already does.
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