2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It's looking more and more like President Trump [View all]Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)If it comes to the GE, it's not about your preferred list of issues. (And even on those, she is more progressive than you give her credit for.) The winner-takes-all electoral system in the US means that the GE is always about two coalitions battling it out. In this election, if it's Trump vs. Hillary, it will be a coalition of right-wing racists and evangelical nutjobs vs. a coalition of pragmatically progressive values and racial inclusion.
Which side (of those two) are you on? The presidential election is not about you, and it is not about whether you love a candidate. I don't love Bernie, but if he's the nominee, I'll campaign for him and vote for him. Because I know which side I'm on, and it sure as hell ain't the side of the neo-Fascists who support Trump.