Please quit threatening to not vote, or vote for a third party candidate!

[Daemonaquila]

63. Why the hell should they?

It's not about what you want to hear. If people feel that strongly, that's their right to speak up about it. People wouldn't be making that point if they weren't sick of hearing about "inevitability" or feeling like HRC (or insert other candidate names for other elections) has some kind of right to their votes.

Those who make that "threat" aren't making it to change anyone else's mind about what candidate they support. They're making it clear that they won't be falling in line to support a candidate they disagree with if that candidate gets the nom, so that candidate's supporters shouldn't be counting their chickens. Any time I hear this complaint, no matter the party, it's really a complaint about "Whyyyyy won't people just fall in line like I want them to, when my candidate is ENTITLED to their vote?" Well, no candidate is entitled to anyone's vote, no party is entitled to any voter's support if it fields a candidate they don't like, and no party loyalist is entitled to be free from hearing dissent in the ranks. Every voter makes their own choices not only about candidates, but about tactics in how to change the political system and their party.