The United States will continue to deteriorate whether a Democrat or a Republican is elected president in November, said Jim Gray, vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.

Romney and Obama are so interchangeable we call them Robamney.' They are really the same person.

Gray is running alongside Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico.

If you vote for the lesser of two evils, like most people are, you still get evil, Gray said Wednesday afternoon during a public meeting at Booth Machinery in Yuma.

If a constituent doesn't support their party's candidate but still votes along party lines, that is a wasted vote because the message to each party is this type of candidate is acceptable, Gray added.

He believes the only real solution, and the only way to end the duopoly in Washington, is for voters to cast a ballot for Johnson.

If we just get 5 percent, it will be a revolution, Gray said. It will be historic because then we as Libertarians will be able to get matching funds from the federal government ... in 2016 for the presidential race. It will be the beginning of the end of the two-party system. Once that happens, we are in the mainstream, we are in the middle financially responsible and socially tolerant.

That will require the radical extremes on both sides to come more towards the center, because we will be that third party voice, he continued. This is historic, this is important.

During his time in Yuma, Gray spoke at length about personal freedoms in the United States. The very soul of our country is our civil liberties, and our very soul is under attack by our very own government.

Those attacks include but are not limited to the passage of the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012, he said.

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Libertarian VP candidate visits Yuma