And I’m like: Look. I’m not a fucking kid and I know exactly what I’m doing. Bernie isnt begging. He’s always said he wouldn’t and couldnt tell us who to vote for. Bernie has his reasons for doing what he did but he always said this movement wasn’t about him.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is what got us into this position of having the most universally distrusted and disliked Democratic candidate in history. The Democratic party had a choice and they chose to run a universally reviled, corrupt warhawk, instead of the most trusted and respected politician currently in office. If you bet on a second place race horse, do you get mad at the people who bet on the leading horse that got shot in the leg and ended up last?
If you actually trust Hillary to keep any of her platform concessions you haven’t been paying attention to her record. If you fear Donald Trump more than you fear Hillary, you also haven’t been paying attention. All the things that you’re afraid of from Trump, Hillary has already done.
I’m old enough to remember pre-NAFTA (a Clinton policy btw) America where, despite H.W.’s incompetence, we had an excess of jobs and workers actually had employers competing for them, not workers competing for employment. And i also remember her calling the TPP the “gold standard” of trade deals only a few months ago. I remember the racist “superpredator” speech (which she still won’t even acknowledge was racist) and the disastrous Clinton crime bill which that speech was supporting, a bill that led to the mass incarceration of PoC and the resulting decay of many communities. I remember her voting for the Defense of Marriage Act and being one of the last Democrats to support marriage equality (in 2013). I remember her vote for the Iraq war and I remember her calling Iraq “a business opportunity.” I remember her deporting thousands of Central American children. I remember her pushing for regime change in Libya. I know she’s pushing for a no-fly zone in Syria and more military intervention. Both are now ISIS strongholds. I remember her pushing fracking as a “clean” energy alternative. She has been on the wrong side of every important issue in the last 20 years until public sentiment became so against her interests that she had to give in or lose all political credibility with her constituents.
Moreover, I have watched her collude with the DNC to funnel money into her campaign. I have watched the DNC collude with the media to ensure her coronation. I have watched them suppress voters, tamper with registration, close polling stations and deliberately provide misinformation. I have watched her campaign pay a million dollars to have trolls try to surpress Bernie’s online support through CorrectTheRecord. I have watched her supporters cheer on one of their own who attacked Bernie groups by posting child pornography to get them shut down. I have watched the director of the FBI recite a list of crimes regarding Hillary’s personal email server and then recommend no charges, despite adding that anyone else would probably be prosecuted. I watched this happen just days after Bill met with Loretta Lynch, head of the DoJ, on a private plan and afterwards, I watched Lynch disemble in front of a congressional inquiry into the matter and refuse to say whether she would be accepting a job in Hillary’s cabinet. I have watched Hillary pointing fingers at Russia like it’s the 80s and the Cold War is still relevant. I’ve watched her push for increased aid to Israel and support their illegal occupation of Palestine and the resulting genocide (another reason she supported the destabilization of Syria). I have watched her receive millions from the Saudi government, one of the worst for human rights abuses, especially regarding women and LGBTQIA+.
Yes. Trump is a racist, misogynist piece of crap but he was also on the DNC payroll. Presumably to make Hillary somewhat palatable until people actually responded to him and his ego took over; but people STILL hate her more. Because she is untrustworthy and a corporate shill. Trump doesn’t even have the support of most of the GOP and his whackadoo ideas will not get past our system of checks and balances. The Republicans have spent the last two years demonstrating how effective the Congress can be at shutting down any legislation.
So no, I’ll be voting my conscience and voting for Jill Stein, a presidential candidate who actually supports progressive issues, not one who just pays them lip service but whose actual record of support is atrocious, in every sense of the word. I’ll be focused on electing down ballot progressives to make sure that there is a Congress in place who will block disastrous bills by EITHER of these candidates. I’ll be voting to open up the dialogue to real progressive platforms by giving a third party a voice in future elections. I’ll be voting to do away with the status quo, two-party system that gave us this illusion of choice.
That’s what Hillary supporters don’t get. The Revolution isn’t about Bernie. It’s about the people waking up and taking back both the power and the responsibility by stepping outside the broken system we have now. And trust me, there are millions of people, people who are gay, trans, black, Hispanic, and Muslim, (you know, the people who are supposed to be afraid of Trump) who agree with me.
Bottom line: if Trump gets elected, the damage he causes will mostly be here at home where we have the power to fight it. If Hillary gets elected, it will be the continuation of our horrific, bloodthirsty foreign policies and the whole world will suffer.
Worst case scenario: Trump= Civil War II; Hillary= WW3. Which is actually worse?
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