There were plenty of people... sharp media, political, cultural figures... urging people to not throw votes away on fringe candidates. The issue isn't the larger number of votes she got, the issue is that you really had no idea what that outcome would be. No one has a crystal ball, so you were still taking a gamble. How many votes could she have potentially lost if a ton more people made the same assumption you did about her having the election in the bag? I tend to believe that really astute people will know the importance of not leaving something that important up to chance.Mojo wrote:Let me get this straight. Hillary got three million more votes than Trump, lost, and I'm the problem. I really thought Hillary had it in the bag. I figured it'd be a landslide. She definitely didn't need my vote. And she'd have lost if she had it. So you're huffing and puffing over exactly nothing, as usual. Shocker.TenBenny wrote: I like how you try to school me several times and then you blow it all up to hell with "Aaaaaaaaaand I voted for Gary Johnson." Gary Fucking Johnson. "Protest vote." Yeah, we've all heard that spiel from people. You really stuck it to the system there.
How do you have the stones to bitch about what Trump is doing or Trump voters? You failed to help the only non-Trump candidate that had a chance at winning, even though you knew she wasn't the one weak puff of oxygen that Johnson was but rather the whole tank. If she represents a smart choice like breathing, you chose to suffocate yourself and the nation, is that it? You basically gave Trump another vote with your "protest vote."
I don't think we needed to vote for those clowns Johnson and Stein to realize a third party is probably a good idea.
Ultimately, the kicker is that Trump's election has told a good many of us to never assume anything again. I know I'm one of the many that made the mistake in presuming people wouldn't possibly go for him when push came to shove, and I'm not taking anything for granted again.
I hope there's more than one person.