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# "Election"
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The past few days of the DNC have demanded pause. I am an Independent. I
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do not like Hillary Clinton. I am a Bernie supporter, and I was upset by his
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endorsement of Hillary. I had vowed not to vote for Hillary; I would
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instead vote for Jill Stein. The DNC, while very well done with a deeply
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compelling facade, has not changed my perspective on Clinton.
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It is perhaps said best by Bernie himself: "It's easy to boo, but it's
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harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under a Donald
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Trump presidency". The conflict here is between my deep ideologies and
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reality. It's often said that a vote for Hillary is a vote against Trump;
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such a perspective would shallow and purposeless. But this isn't an
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election for president---this is the most threatening assault on everything
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I stand for that I hope I will ever witness in my lifetime. To stand for
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ideological purity would be to stand atop a mountain while the world around
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me burns. This is why Bernie chose to unite.
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Should Trump win, my ideals that seem within reach could be blown back
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decades. As a matter of strategy, I cannot justify _not_ swallowing every
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ounce of my pride. Hillary's presidency is an unfortunate but necessary
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consequence of the only permissible outcome. I am not electing a president
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of the United States. I am electing _a United States_.
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So I am doing what I never thought I would do: proposing that others too
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factor this obscene equation and recognize how the very few remaining
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variables affect the result. My ideals continue to exist in part and in
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spirit with Hillary as president. With Trump, they are all but
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vanquished. Donald Trump must not be elected president of the United
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States. When (and if) you vote, think of it as a shot fired, not as a vote
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cast.
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"Election".
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More information about my opinions on this topic can be found
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[here][social-1] and [here][social-2].
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[social-1]: https://social.mikegerwitz.com/conversation/21864
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[social-2]: https://social.mikegerwitz.com/conversation/22026
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