I was told in a conversation that by not voting for Hillary Clinton I was voting for Donald Trump. What? Why couldn't I vote for Hillary? And how can I turn my back on the Democratic Party? I nearly lost it. I very politely said I will vote but I'm going to write in Bernie Sanders or I'm going to vote for any independent.
Apparently I'm crazy to think that the democratic party basically gave the nomination to Hillary Clinton. Apparently that being a Bernie Sanders fan means I'm a democrat instead of an independent. And I'm a female suppressor.
No to all of these things. I think I'm actually more a liberal counterpart to a Donald Trump supporter. I mean in the sense that I get anyone supporting the Donald because they hate the establishment. I am not fond of the democrat establishment and I don't want to vote for Hillary.
I could care less if she's a women. She's dishonest and thinks she's above the law. And I was told how is she any different from GW, Colin Powell, etc who had private servers? It wasn't illegal when she started doing it, but it became illegal. Um okay yes but she continued doing it and I believe it's because she thinks she's above the law. Apparently everyone who runs for president thinks they are above the law. I don't think so the only other one I feel like who thinks that way was Nixon and we saw how that ended up.
Yes both liberal and conservative people are beholden to special interests. But why can't a person who supported bernie not support hillary? I don't like donald and what he stands for at all. I am not in support of his comments or platform or him. But I don't want to vote for a woman I despise and think is lying every step of the way. And I see nothing wrong with saying I'm probably less of a democrat than I've ever been and turning more independent as I get older. I hold more liberal views than what the "democratic" party holds. But I have a ton of friends who were republicans but now would call themselves liberaterians. Because republicans are not the party of smaller government anymore, but rather the government of spend more money on their agenda. So how can either party wonder why people are fleeing them?
Do you think both liberals and conservatives aren't in sync with the big party elites?
Not liking the candidates
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Personally I think the establishment Republicans and Democrats should get together to form a center-right conservative party, and the Green party should scoop up some awesome liberal politicians like Bernie and become the new liberal party. The right-wing fringe isn't going to be viable much longer; they're dying out and becoming more and more of a minority. (Despite Trump winning, keep in mind many of the early primaries were "won" with a minority of actual votes, like 25%-30%.) The Democrats have been slowly veering to the right on a lot of policies since Clinton I came to office, and Obama hasn't done much to stop that (though he's overseen some great progressive things).
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I'm thinking about joining the Modern Whig Party.
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I do vote, but as Lucky Robin states, by the time our polls close on the West Coast, it's already been called so why should I even bother voting? I wish it was decided by a popular vote rather than the stupid electoral votes. I feel like we don't even have a voice. We definitely need more than a two party system.
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