It's hard to hold a candidate responsible after an election when all they do is generate vile negativity.

Sound bites between spewing hatred of the other just doesn't cut it as far as I am concerned.

When the only claim coming from their respective partisans is "our candidate is the lesser of two evils" how dare you fucking demand that I vote for one of these odious people, how fucking dare you.

The have indeed inspired me, to run away from their parties as fast as possible and to fight them at every turn, this is not the country I want. They regard us as warm bodies to fuel their egos, nothing more, it has not been about us but merely which of them can convince some to vote based on hatred.

I am so glad that I voted for candidates without a D or and R after their name, so bloody glad. I want absolutely nothing to do with people whose only input has been to spout bile 24/7.

What positive has come out of this election?

Well hopefully it has demonstrated that the only thing either of our two major parties possess is unlimited hatred for the other. I had hoped Bernie would push her to the end, but sadly that hasn't happened, at least he had a "dream" now all we are served is a "nightmare".

At least "hope and change" inspired in some something deeper even if it was the same old flannel. Two wretched human beings hurling insults at each other inspires only the baser instinct such as fear and loathing of anyone who says, hold on, I have a question. There has been zero point in trying to discuss the future with either set of fanatics, all you get is "get with the program or get lost".

These sad excuses pretending to be leaders may motivate their respective bases to get to the polling booths, but they do nothing for the rest of us except possibly send in a ballot as a protest vote. Whichever is elected I expect zero change but a merely a continuation of the hate for the next generation or so. I feel that we missed a golden opportunity to change the discourse when my candidate Bernie Sanders was steamrollered by the party apparatchik. I am not sure when we will get the chance again, the two parties will do everything in the power to maintain the duopoly. Any possibility of anything else will once again be hacked off at the roots; as was Occupy.

I doubt if they will ever again allow descenting candidates to run in their primaries, I see their primaries becoming entirely closed shop affairs. Once bitten, twice shy.

The so called "progressive" blogs/sites might as well just shut down as one by one they became mere echo chambers of the Party. They will have even less influence than before because now the Party knows they will just roll over and beg for scraps. Most of them started as antiwar sites now they have joined forces to try and elect a war monger just because which party she nominally represents, I remember the joy for war votes despite all the warning issued by those ridiculed now. I remember whistleblowers being heralded but now denigrated as Russian puppets merely because of which party is in power at the time of their warnings. The list of those once supported but now reviled grows longer with each passing year.

Anyone that resists the status quo is denigrated, ridiculed and named as an enemy of the all powerful party no matter which side of the aisle you reside. To those prominent self declared "progressives" that sold their souls to the Party to elect the "lesser of two evils"; you lost and you lost badly and have become in turn part of the problem, no matter what the result of this election.

I am tired of the mindless partisanship and will not participate in this farce.

To both parties I say.

Fuck you

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