"I got to stamp my feet and refuse to vote for Hillary."

[RiverNoord]

65. That's incredibly foolish logic.

If a Democrat, like me, finds it (the DNC emails that were entirely no surprise but still appalling ended it for me) unacceptable to cast a vote for a particular Democratic candidate for a particular office, that person is not suddenly a supporter of Republicans.

I have never, once, voted for a Republican in my life. That's 27 years of post-age-18 voting for Democrats in every partisan election, always.

I am absolutely, positively, unequivocally opposed to a Donald Trump presidency. But I am also, finally, absolutely opposed to a Hillary Clinton presidency as well. Nothing to do with Bernie Sanders. I am firmly convinced that the Clintons have profoundly abused the connections that they developed during their time in the White House, and that the Democratic party has become a racket. Either we recover and rehabilitate it, or republican democracy in the United States simply dies.

I've voted for 'lesser of two evils' all my life, but in the current presidential election, the evils are so profound that I regard the only sane course is abstinence from casting a presidential vote.

I may get banned - OK. Moderators - go right ahead if you insist and hide this. Ban me. But if you do, you are also part of the problem, and that's not an ignorant cheap shot - it's the plain truth, as much as any thing may be said to be true.

If the chief accomplishment of the 2016 election is the prevention of a Donald Trump presidency then the Democratic party has made mistakes of the highest order in perverting the 2016 party presidential primary/caucus to serve a single candidate, the candidate's methods of building power, and the candidate's friends. How much lower can it sink? There will be no reform from within when those we grant immense power are, themselves, the very basis of the need for reform. In what universe does this make sense?

I can not imagine voting for a Republican, ever. The Republican party was a racket long before the Democratic party, and it provokes racism, religious bigotry, and deep disdain for the very government that it has been a major part of for around 150 years (if you can get past that, there's not much helping you) in order to motivate its potential voters.

But if Democrats accept that their party is, oh, pretty corrupt and generally controlled by a cabal of insiders, many of whom make handsome careers by obtaining favorable government treatment of their clients, but say 'well, this really isn't the time to deal with that,' then we must hold our citizenship pretty cheaply.

Maybe this will be my final DU post, but your statement is deeply, utterly wrong, and it is so because the present Democratic party is a tool of people who absolutely should not be trusted to govern our country as participants in its (formally, at least) context as a Republic maintained by a representative democratic process.