Please STOP TELLING ME I'll Vote for Hillary Clinton Because I'M A CHICK.

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10. I also will not vote for Bernie Sanders just because he's a Jewish person...

Just like I wouldn't vote for Netanyahu if he were an American citizen just because he's a Jewish person. There are plenty of other good reasons not to vote for Netanyahu as most of us here would realize.

Electing a Jewish person as president would also be a momentous occasion for people of that faith too.

But I support Sanders now because he, as a candidate and a potential leader that works for the issues this country needs fixed is the best equipped PERSON to do so! I'd vote for him if he were Muslim too, if he had the same life history too! Someone like Keith Ellison would be awesome down the road in my book!

I think when we vote for the first Jewish person, the first person of color, or the first woman as president, we should be careful and pick someone who will do the best job, and set a TEMPLATE for future politicians with like identities to follow. If we elect someone like Bernie or Elizabeth Warren as president, we would be setting precedents for future Jewish and women candidates so that people will know that those we elected in the past were great, and that there's a good possibility that we might have a decent person of their identity in the future too.

I'm concerned that someone like Obama, with a lot of his later shortcomings, might work in reverse of this equation and make it harder for another decent person of color who really wants to work for the peoples' interests and not push things like the TPP, to get elected president.

Most of us will look at future candidates as many of us look at Bernie as being the right person. But there will be many in the future that are borderilne bigots that will use past history of a past politician of that identity and use that as a reason to campaign against others later that will make getting them elected that much harder. I hope that we can avoid that.