I am voting for the Democrat, because people will DIE otherwise.
Many, many more than if I don't.
I'm sorry if it offends or hurts feelings to say it that bluntly, but it's true. Those of you who know me and are just appalled that I could ask for other people to put aside their selfishness and stick with us in the general, even if it means a vote for Hillary Clinton (oh, the horror)--well I'm sorry, my friends. But if you know me like you say you do, then you know that my family lives on the edge of a knife in more ways than one. A Republican in the White House is a source of angst and anger and frustration for most of you. For me and people like me, it could mean death. Literally.
Hell, the only reason that Rhythm is ALIVE right now is because she finally got healthcare under the ACA and they caught her endometrial cancer early enough to cure it. My mother died from not having access to healthcare for way, way too long. We are food insecure, trying to care for two teenagers, and I am recovering from a surgery that will save my life--a surgery I'd NEVER have had without the ACA.
There isn't a single Republican who wouldn't bend every ounce of his power toward destroying the ACA. Toward dismantling Medicaid, and SNAP, and WIC, and LIEAP, and SSI, and school clothing vouchers, and anything else that keeps poor, disabled, underprivileged people alive and functional. They would gladly see us all dead. And when people say they'll stay home just because their preferred candidate doesn't win, it makes me want to VOMIT. I cannot even conceive of how "liberals" could be that breathtakingly self-centered. It's like they are saying, TO ME and to other people who would be under the guillotine in a Puke administration (Hello racial minorities! Hello LGBTers!), that WE DON'T MATTER. Our lives are worth less, in the end, than someone else's petulant resentment.
So my apologies to those that I apparently shocked. You see, I'd like to survive the next eight years, so I tend to overstep my bounds a little and be a tad impolite when trying to show people that there is SO MUCH MORE at stake here than just Bernie versus Hillary. I don't give a damn if we nominate Wile E. Coyote, as long as he's not gonna institute Republican KILL THE POORS AND THE BROWN PEOPLE policies. None of our Dems would do that, so as far as I'm concerned, they're all just fine to me. The fact is that the Republican Party has gone completely insane. You all know it's true. They are evil and dangerous and SO MUCH WORSE than anything on our side of the political fence. Frankly I spend every day just waiting to hear Huckabee or Cruz start calling for gays and atheists and women who've had abortions to be rounded up and imprisoned/tortured/executed, and no, I am not exaggerating. The American right wing is a homicidal dictatorship waiting for its chance to happen.
I like Hillary because I feel safer with her; she's more moderate, and therefore less scary to the easily-spooked independents and centrists. She seems much more likely to win. But if Bernie is our nominee, I will be right there with all the rest of you trying my best to convince everyone I know to vote for him, and giving him the time and resources I can spare. Because the alternative is a living nightmare that I cannot comprehend.
What hurts me, what KILLS me, is knowing that if it goes the other way, we the underclass are apparently on our own. We aren't important enough for our lives to be worth having to cast a reluctant vote for the D. I am deeply affected by people who make it clear that their "conscience" has more value than my life. Than my childrens' lives. The things we talk about here are not just philosophical differences, for me. So I apologize for going emotionally overboard on occasion. Perhaps some of you truly don't realize how worthless and abandoned and terrified some of us have been feeling here, lately.
It's not about loyalty. It's about decency and mercy. A vote for the Democrat is a vote to save lives, because it's a vote AGAINST the horror that the Republicans are waiting to impose upon us. Upon me. My kids. My neighbors.
Please.
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