Who else is sitting this election out?

[daredtowork]

73. The Hillary Machine will Generate Apathy

And all the noise about "you're a disloyal Democrat if you don't back her up now" will just alienate people up front, and all the finger-pointing and blame-storming when we end up with a a GOP President later and this country officially goes down the toilet will not stop this apathy from happening.

People need to get their political energy from a candidate that inspires them. More importantly - that they believe is an actual Democrat!

I'm highly demoralized right now because I believe Hillary probably will be the nominee, which means this country probably will be handed back to Republican rule long enough to complete the Reagan/Bush project: a return to 19th-century Robber Baron oligarchy. This is a country in which disabled people like myself are left to die in a ditch because we didn't magically transform ourselves into something the oligarchs could make money out of.

Knowing that, you want me to drag myself out of bed and be one of the few people who vote for Hillary to "prove" I'm a Loyal Democrat? To who? To this forum?

Demanding Loyalty and toeing the line for a cause people don't believe in and that doesn't represent their interests is Fascism, pure and simple.

If Hillary wants people's votes she can always try to magically turn into a Democrat, but I'll doubt she will succeed this late in the game.

I'm really sorry a viable darkhorse candidate did not show up this time. I really wish I could believe Bernie could win. (And better yet that he was a woman). I really wish Warren would run. But it will probably be Hillary, and most of the voting public will probably not bother on election day.