Just as being a poor republican makes little sense, I cannot vote for Hillary.

[MisterP]

185. if abstentionists are to blame for a winning GOPper's policies, are Hillary all on the hook

for the wars, crippling free-trade agreements, banksterism, hunger from Reaganomics' fourth decade of failure, and other reactionary policies she absolutely will pass? bluewash doesn't exactly get out stains if they're blood-red

will they sit around un- or underemployed, paying to bail out the Wall Streeters that put them underwater, taking care of the parents after SS and Medicare are sold off because only a Dem could make that oligarch dream come true, and BLESS the president for seating someone who's only occasionally homophobic in the SCOTUS?

but the larger issue is that this won't even matter: if every DUer past and present voted one way or the other it wouldn't swing an election--and yet for over a decade any critic or lefty has been blamed whenever the voters reject a conservadem: in fact the voters are pre-blamed while the political-class flunkies are assumed to be doing the right thing--that electoral failure means only that we have to double down; needless to say this has only moved the GOP further and further right, making it ever-easier to threaten voters with dire consequences (not that it's kept the conservadems from going along with it 85% of the time)

people are going to see a party vocally dedicated to entrenching the status quo, already disavowing all responsibility for its own loss, demanding the votes Americans owe it in exchange for maybe not being punched in the nose as much, and saying America's problems are due to its voters and not the politicians: it's not DUers that are going to make her lose, it's the fact that it gets reduced so easily to making more threats than Nurse Ratched

they're not running a party, they're running a prison--or maybe a veal pen