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Also last point, to the people calling me a liar about how a possible third-party run by Sanders could split the Dem vote in half and thus give Trump the presidency, i give you my examples i presented:

1912 election:

Roosevelt quits the Republican Party and joins the Progressive Party, Roosevelt, a former Republican with Republican leaning views, splits the GOP vote and Democrat Woodrow Wilson wins most of the electoral votes as a result. (this was even in a time when the GOP dominated the presidency until FDR, Woodrow wouldn’t have won without the split vote.)

1968 election:

George Wallace, a Democrat, leaves the Democratic party and attracts southern Democrats who had segregationist views to his third-party run. Look how close the vote was between the Dems and the GOP, the Democrats barely lost the vote to Nixon because of the third-party Wallace run and his millions of third party votes away from the GOP.

2000 election:

Very, very tight election race between Gore and Bush, but it was made worse when Nader attracted liberal voters away from the Democrats, Nader was on the ballot in 43 states and DC, and he made enough of an impact to lessen the Democrat’s vote against the GOP, Gore’s popular vote was not enough to win as many people in those 43 states voted Nader instead of aiding the Democrat vote.

So yeah, call me a corporate, paid-by-Hillary crony or whatever the fuck you wanna call me, but this is just basic history and this is no conspiracy bullcrap, it’s just basic truth.

Speaking as someone who lived through the 2000 one, if y’all fuck this up and Trump gets elected, I’m coming to your house to shout at you.  ALL OF YOU.

Ugh, and the 2000 election even came with the “eh, they’re both just as bad” rationale. Such a horrible history-ruining false equivalency. It was a false equivalency then, it’s a false equivalency now. 

If you want to build a third party, do it with local and congressional leaders. But not with the presidency. Not with all that’s at stake. 

2000 is why I drank.

And don’t tell me, oh it doesn’t matter it’ll only be 4 years.

You know what happened one year into GW Bush’s first term? 9/11.

In the aftermath, Republicans leveraged reactionary patriotism to not only secure a second term for Bush, they took the House and the Senate. Considering that the judiciary has been right-wing for the last 40 years, that means the entire government was controlled by Republicans.

Look around. You have been living in the aftermath of a disaster wrought by people “voting their conscience.”

And speaking of the judiciary, it DEFINITELY WON’T just be 4 years. The next president will appoint the new Supreme Court justice to replace Scalia (since the Republicans are still fucking stonewalling Obama, ‘cause that’s a mature, responsible way to govern the country), and probably more, given the advancing ages of RBG, Kennedy, and Breyer.

And those new justices will be on the court for DECADES, shaping the future of American law. Does anyone want to risk Trump being the one to determine that?

#you young voters that were too young for the last election and possibly the one before that need to look long and hard at these numbers#think not just about you personally but your friends and family#think about the poor and the lgbt and the poc peoples because if you vote third party or not at all#you are letting them down#by all means vote with your conscious on the state level and vote out the republicans stalling congress#but if you do that but then dont vote blue for the presidential office youre basically shooting yourself in the foot#i am not going back to a recessing economy that i barely got a job in just because some fellow democrats cant see past their own nose#so please#i am begging you#vote for clinton