If you don't vote Hillary you get Trump!

No progressive would allow Trump to win!

They say this without even trying to convince you what you would be voting for, just what you would be avoiding. Now if you reside outside of the US what would be the difference? US foreign policy has been a godsend to terrorist for decades, good grief and some people still ask why do the terrorists hate us, an absolute disconnect with the last 400 years or so of history. The US has merely been a continuation of physical warfare and economic war to enable asset stripping without responsibility. We call our war crimes a mistake thus rejecting culpability for our own actions, it was a mistake not a war crime we decree. We torture and then ignore the reality and move on. We invade and occupy and still we deny that we are to blame for the chaos.

Hillary, and I will remind you of the facts voted for this, oh it was a mistake, sorry that only works on the sheep. I suppose Honduras will be handled the same way, oops our bad. Libya, oopsey daisy, Syria, whoops. She is experienced they will cry, in making bloody messes I'll reply.

Trump wants to build a wall, yet Hillary helped install a brutal regime, she was merely following US foreign policy guidelines that have been in place since ever.

Our drones circle the world killing with a click. We decide without recourse who will die, when we fuck up we brush it off without even an "our bad" we will brush it off and send a few for counseling. I suppose we are the victims of our own exceptionalism the rest of the world should feel sorry for us.

Is electing Hillary going to change one iota how the individual States are run? Democrats have been steadily losing at a State level for decades. Why? Nobody wants to answer that one, vote Hillary and a magic wand will appear and assholes will become elbows.

The Democratic Party, the DNC and their new incarnation in a figurehead called Hillary have done so little for the people and so much for their sponsors that waving Trump's wig in our faces is not going to change the facts. Democrats really do suck.

Changing the party from within is the only way some will say, not one can give an example of this actually occurring, nor even point to a trend. The Overton window has been creaking ever rightwards since Reagan gave his first inaugural address. Progressive policies sure fire losers. The ACA based on a Republican idea for the insurance companies is hailed a success, indeed it has benefited quite a few, but then they turn around and mock unabashedly any attempt for single payer or universal health care. What the rest of the industrialized world has, we cant afford, complete and utter malarkey. Education, prisons and health care have become industrialized complexes under their leadership. Free trade, their mantra to a more perfect union with the corporations, but fuck we the people.

The one thing the Democrats and Republicans are doing really well is getting people to flee their respective parties. Moderate Republican "become" Democrats and are embraced, real Democrats become an object of ridicule, only to be courted in an hour of need, only then to be made fools of when the lobbyist come courting with cold hard cash. Big tent, my ass.

Change from within without the fear of electoral rejection won't work, it never has. It's time the Democratic Party had the fear of the voter put in them. Giving them succor, will only help them make suckers of us all. Americans as a whole when asked without party identification have some pretty progressive views, but the loyalty plays by both corporate wings prevents them from actually happening. Both parties are obstructionist where the will of the people is concerned. Voting for either is a statement that you believe that the system works, it doesn't. The next President of the US will be voted for by about 1 in 4 of the population and that proves the system is indeed fundamentally flawed, if not entirely broken.

You should have voted will be the mantra, for what exactly?

I'll vote in the election, but neither of the two main parties will be considered at the top of the ballot.