Posted: 02 February 2017 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | 6
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Kevin Hagerman wrote: "No wonder people don't vote if you don't give them anything to vote for."
So tragically idealistic. We had a candidate to vote for. She'd given this country years of dedicated public service and was vilified and smeared with unconscionable lies and baseless charges for more than 20 years, all of it amounting to exactly zero indictments. Absolutely nothing that could be taken into a courtroom and be taken seriously by anyone with an intelligence level above that of an Enquirer devotee.
While the Democrats these days seem to want this world to be one of rainbow candidates and sunshine policies, filled with brightness and wonderment at every turn, none of these lazy, self-justifying lotus-eaters seem to be able to do the simple math required to understand the voting process in this country.
If you voted third party; If you didn't vote; If you don't intend to vote because the whole sordid process is somehow beneath you or you want some hippy-happy wonderfulness to vote for and feel your vote is deserving of nothing less regardless of what that decision does to this country, you are an idiot and a coward.
Stop blaming the DNC. Yes, you didn't get the candidate you wanted. That's tragic, really. But throwing your vote away or not casting one at all out of spite or some decision to wrap yourself in some sort of dreamy, self-satisfied rainbow-colored happiness blanket, you are responsible for Trump's victory every bit as much anyone who did vote for the scum.
Pointlessly casting blame? No. This country needs for every idiot who followed such a f*cking stupid, selfish course of action last time to wake up, take responsibility, and not do it again.
Third parties are not morally viable choices. You as a voter do not have the luxury to "make a statement" when lives and the safety of this country are at stake. Mathematically, if you didn't vote for the only candidate who could beat Trump, you used your power to stop him for frivolous, selfish purposes that may as well have been endorsements for this new administration. Grow up. Face it. And vote AGAINST him and his minions and enablers next time. Vote effectively for a change. Not just for your sake but for everybody's.
Edited by Brian Hague on 02 February 2017 at 5:05pm
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