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Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88
I'm sorry, but comparing Clinton's faults to Trump's faults feels incredibly weak to me.
One would be a President you disagreed with but could live with keeping the executive branch alive until you can vote for a better candidate 4 years later.
The other already has the executive branch in shambles, is embarrassing the country on an international stage and is making a mockery of the office.
Any other year, I'd agree with the right to think "each is an idiot". I honestly just can't fathom how anyone could not see Trump as by far the greater evil here, though.
And I think it's dangerous to just sit this out, too, because that just further empowers Trump in this climate. I trust in the Constitution to hold strong and enough checks and balances in place -- between the public and judiciary/legislative branches -- for this to not end in apocalypse, hard as Trump is trying to fumble the nuclear football right now. But I do think we're fighting for the intelligence, reputation and truth-literacy of America moving forward, if nothing else, and valuing the truth has to matter at some point.
EDIT: I got sidetracked here a bit but keeping this so as not to revise. I don't think the point anymore is Clinton v Trump or WE WON YOU LOST! I think the point is that Donald Trump is President and doing some scary shit. And we should be honest about what that is, why it's happening, talk about it, see why it does happen (what it REALLY addresses) and what can be done to make this a better country moving forward.
Of course, if you're blindly for a Muslim ban without thinking beyond that, I cannot help you.
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I refuse to vote from someone with an R or D by their name over a 3rd party candidate simply because they are the lesser of two evils.
Its that kind of thinking that has us in this mess where the parties put up weak candidates election after election.
Voting for one major party candidate simply so the other one doesn't win is not good enough, and should not be good enough, when voting for the president.
I buying into the idea you have to pick one of the major party candidates, no matter who they are, just to beat the other person just perpetuates this country's problems long term.