2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tonight is the night I leave the Democratic Party and Democratic Underground [View all]EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)And in my heart I know this is the wrong path.
Regardless if you support HRC or not there will be many who leave because they will not be bullied into voting for a candidate that simply doesn't remotely reflect their values. There will be pressures and guilt trips. You will be told suck it up and vote the lesser of two evils, and we can't let a maniac appoint the next supreme court justices.
I get it.
I just can't vote for someone whom I feel is leading us to war in the near horizon, who is in the pocket of big business, who lacks transparency, whose foreign policy is egregious, whose trade stances help big business at the expense of labor, whose rhetoric criticizes trickle down and the Citizens United decision, but essentially allows policy that only continues the trickle down polices to exist, and who takes large corporate donations despite saying they are against Citizens United, who says we can't have Single Payer despite living with medicare for the last 50 years and how most industrialized civilized societies live under universal healthcare quite successfully, who calls herself a pragmatic progressive (which thankfully we will never have to hear her call herself a progressive again after she gets the nomination), who compliments the Reagans for opening people's eyes to the AIDS crisis, who is for capital punishment, and on and on.
Henry Kissinger may vote for her. I cannot.