So this is my first diary ever on the Internet.

I have lurked here and commented a bit a TOP. First off, I am a Millennial Latina living in Texas. I was raised in a poor but loving family. I got a scholarship to a top university and was sure that it was my ticket to a middle class lifestyle. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I spent most of my 20s being poor. It wasn't until my late 20s that I finally started living a middle class lifestyle. So that is a little about me.

I am a Bernie supporter. I voted for him in the Texas primary because I truly believe that he is the only politician willing to fight for us non-rich people. The media is constantly talking about how if Bernie supporters don't vote for Hillary, then women and minorities will suffer some horrific harm. Oh no! But I am still not voting for Hillary and I totally resent how Hillary, her supporters, and her allies in the media use me as a human shield. According to them, if you don't vote for Hillary, then I, a Latina, will suffer irreparable harm. But I am so damned tired of being used as a human shield by Hillary Clinton and her supporters. Let me say it here- you don't have to vote for Hillary in November to protect my family and I.

In fact, a vote for Hillary is a vote for the TPP and the military industrial complex. The TPP alone will cost untold harm to millions of people here in the United States. And thousands of men (many of them minorities) will probably be sent to fight in another useless war all to make Hillary's friends in the military industrial complex richer. A vote for Hillary is actually a vote against me and others who are just struggling to get by. I don't care about the Supreme Court because anybody that she nominates will be pro-Wall Street. How does that help me?

But what about abortion? Isn't that reason alone to vote for her? Sure if you are a rich white woman. But I am a Latina who owes more in student loans than I make in a year. Read that again. My student loans are more than my yearly salary. The economy is my main concern. Paying for my children's daycare is another top concern. In fact, my top concerns are all financial in one way or another. Talking to other Latinas, I realized that we are all concerned about our financial situations. I have only met one Latina who as obsessed with abortion as the media makes all women out to be. But the media would rather talk about anything other than the crappy state of our economy. The rich are doing great under a Democratic administration and that is all that matters to the media.

Just my thoughts. But please remember that I am not Hillary's human shield.