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In reply to the discussion: Are there really people on DU who won't vote for the Democratic candidate if [View all]DFW
(60,081 posts)Unless " The DNC DWS DLC Third-Way Party Establishment" (don't forget "corporate"
has denied you the same number of votes in the primary as the rest of us (hopefully that's 1), you are never an afterthought. In 2004, my guy (Howard Dean) bombed in the primaries. It didn't make me an afterthought that I voted for him, and it was definitely NOT a rationalization not to vote for Kerry in the General.
In the next General Election, anything other than voting our nominee is "my way or the highway," and more Scalias and Alitos confirming Citizens United instead of repealing it. NOTHING is worth that. Sure, it's ABSOLUTELY everyone's right to do so, but there are a lot of other people out there who would benefit from there NOT bring a Republican in the White House in January 2017. If, four years from now, someone gets pulled over on the street and killed "accidentally" by the cop, and the Supreme Court in 2019 says the killer cop was within his constitutional rights to shoot someone for running a red light, you can always say "not my problem." But in 2016, you became part of the victim's problem. I applaud the OP's realization of that.
I hope all supporters of Clinton, Sanders and O'Malley at least ponder that before choosing not to vote our nominee in case THEIR woman/man does not receive the nomination.