First lets get Hillary Clinton's viewpoint

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.

I see a lot of hair shirt wearing and pearl crushing going on. If Trumps wins it will be Armageddon!

Part of the problem is the current perception that the executive runs the country which by and large is false.

Trump is disliked equally by most of the Republican elite as he is by the the Democratic Party elite so in fact electing him would probably diminish the rise of executive power over the last few decades. No I am not arguing for his election.

I voted awhile ago and neither democrats or republicans should be concerned as none of their respective candidates got my vote, all the way down the ballot.

Trump is an odious sack of shit. How the hell the Republicans and their supporters elected this turd sandwich I will never be able to fully comprehend. Ignorant, petty and spoilt are his finest qualities, rightfully he should lose this election in a landslide. There is nothing positive in the whole of his character that you can even highlight to make a modicum of a case for him, zero charm, zero credibility and filled with a vileness beyond description.

The meme goes

But the poor darlings just want free everything.

No we bloody don't, even here in socialist commie France.

When we earn enough we pay taxes, we pay towards the health care of all and we pay towards our retirement.

The idea of taxes is to pay for everyone to have at least the minimum chance to compete in life on an equal basis.

I was reading an Article in Slate and that sort of simplistic cover all title really annoys me.

The title was "The Hillary Haters".

This from Cenk Uygur

You supported Bernie in the primaries. Are you supporting Hillary now? Will you vote for her?

There's a difference between voting for her and supporting her. I will most certainly vote for Hillary Clinton. No, I do not remotely support her. I will be looking to fight her on day one.

HT to ~— ggersh for pointing it out in my previous diary

Some of the real points made in Kate Aronoff's article in the Guardian