2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm old and jaded. I sure hate to see the enthusiasm of young people stifled instead of encouraged. [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)Realistically there are going to be two relevant candidates, the Democratic and Republican candidates. Each of them stakes out a position (actually positions on many issues) and a voter can analyze and say that either the D or the R is going to be President. One of them is going to be closer to an individual voter's preferred position. If somebody is supporting Sanders, and Clinton wins the nomination, I suspect the person who voted the same as Sanders 93% of the time in the Senate will be closer than Trump, Cruz or Rubio.
Growing up means realizing that you won't always get your way, but you can always make the best out of a situation. If you can vote for somebody who objectively far more closely approaches your preferred position, then that's the solution most likely to get you the best result of the available options.