Why should I be a Democrat?

[hunter]

79. I don't understand your reply.

If your affluent acquaintances are voting Republican because they think that's in their own "financial interests" then, yes, I believe they are idiots, and I question their ethics too.

And even if a person feels absolutely secure in their own financial situation, it's still correct to vote against the party that would starve children and elderly people, deny civil rights to LGBT people, trash public education, deny science, and condone or promote racism.

The platform Hillary Clinton ran on was a good one. Anyone who sat out this election, or voted for someone other than Clinton, contributed in some small way to the Trump catastrophe.

I am almost certainly politically left of the original poster, and a radical environmentalist too. Yet I enthusiastically supported Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. I did not see Sanders as a viable candidate.

Like it or not, the U.S.A. does not have a parliamentary system. Voter suppression and gerrymandering in the U.S.A. are rampant, and then there's the damned electoral college. This leaves us very stark binary choices when it comes to voting.