When you ask/demand that I vote for HRC

[Kelvin Mace]

You are asking me to accept the responsibility/blame for:

1) The cruel and unjust practice of executing people, including innocent people

2) The perpetuation of a prison system which corporations run for a profit, and which requires laws that keep people in jail making money for these same corporations.

3) The continuance of a policy of eternal war without regard for cost in blood and treasure.

4) An economic policy which privatizes profit for the select few, while socializing losses on the backs of the majority.

5) A political system by the dollar, for the dollar.

6) An environmental policy which dooms us all by famine, poison air/water/soil, and climate change inimical to human life.

Then you tell me that if I refuse to be your accomplice in supporting any of all of these eventualities, then I am complicit in the election of someone who will be "worse".

In essence, you ask me to compare stacks of corpses and choose the smaller stack in the name of "pragmatism". And if I refuse to choose, I am guilty for what happens none the less.

Damned if I vote for.

Damned if I vote against.

Damned if I refuse to vote.

Now some of you will get angry and accuse me of playing the "morally superior" card. Well, that is your choice. I am unlikely to convince you that some of us are actually bothered by these moral questions. Some of us can't simply pick the lesser of two evils and look at ourselves in the mirror afterward.

So, do what you will. You certainly do not need my approval or permission. Conversely, I refuse to accept any blame for acting in accordance with my conscience.

[onecaliberal]

1. Agree.

[Maedhros]

2. In my opinion, it is crucial that more and more people abandon the "lesser of two evils"

voting strategy. We are being bullied and shamed into voting against our interests, and the Democratic Party establishment knows it doesn't have to actually work for liberal and progressive legislation because we'll vote for them anyway.

Well, let's not vote for them anyway. Let's vote only for Democrats that actually do what we want.

[m-lekktor]

4. I completely agree. and I do NOT think we have "two good candidates" which I see people claim. nt

[kath]

7. Same - I want to scream every time I read that "we have two great candidates" stuff.

[JRLeft]

8. We a true progressive and a Republican.

[Fairgo]

3. I proudly stand with Kelvin

By your very name, you can quantify the Bern

[Mnemosyne]

5. Hear, hear. nt

[kath]

6. +1000.

thanks so much for this, Kelvin.

"Conscience" -- what a concept.