For those saying you won't vote for the Democratic nominee

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214. Excellent post.

Your early political history especially parallels my own.

I was volunteering at the local Democratic HQ when I was eleven years old ... mind you, my parents were not political, I did that all on my own.

I was called 'Mr. Democrat' when I was in high school.

My political heros are individuals like James Madison, Emma Goldman, FDR, Robert Kennedy ...

I was the county chair for Bill Clinton in 1992 for the state primary.
I have been tactical and loyal to the Democratic Party in the past.

The stakes now for the nation are too high for that kind of political tribalism.

Hillary Clinton is the antithesis of almost everything I have come to stand for in politics.
The Repuglicans are what they are and we all know that -- but for a Democrat to be a neoliberal-neoconservative and be the party's nominee for president is just too much hypocrisy, too much corporatism, too much elitism for me to personally tolerate.

I won't vote for her. I won't apologize for that either.

I hold out hope that she is not our nominee. I hold out hope that our party doesn't nominate her and run our party into the ground.

Well said.