I doubt my endorsement, coming from an anonymous commenter on HN, has much weight but I'll put it out here for one reason in particular: As a message to anybody else who's feeling the same but feels that even announcing something like this will cause you to be shamed.
Hillary means more drone strikes, corporate appeasment, global interventions, weapon sales to Saudi Arabia, and a complete lack of transparency into government.
I will not vote for a candidate that represents so much of what is wrong with this country, solely becuase she wants me to believe the other guy is worse.
Fear tactics are the last resort of tyrants, my mind was made up after the DNC Leaks.
Trump supports drone strikes and wants to go further, including torturing the families of terrorists. Trump supports nuclear proliferation (e.g. Japan). Corporate appeasement? The guy runs a billion dollar business and benefitted greatly from the housing crisis. Transparency? He won't even release his tax returns.
What makes you think Trump is going to be any different than the right-wing status quo which essentially still supports all these? Trump has NO serious political connections outside of Gov Christie, he is becoming anathema even among his own party, how could he possibly reverse any of the "business as usual" even if he wanted to?
>Fear tactics are the last resort of tyrants
Like claiming the entire election is stolen before a single vote is cast? Or threatening to jail your opponent?
This is why people think Trump supporters are delusional and dumb. So many people in this thread posting about what they think Trump will do, despite the fact that it flies in the face of what he stands for and has said. They take the candidate seriously and ignore what he is saying in favor of their own imagined reasonings. I get it. You don't want Hillary to be president. I don't either. But to act like Trump is a political savior is a very very disturbing and strange move.
Also, I never said I was voting for Trump.
When you honestly consider that prospect, does it not terrify you? I don't mean that question rhetorically.
Hillary however has a paved road ahead of her, and what will be branded as a "mandate".
I am truly scared of what this country will be after 8 years of her rule.
May your vote bring you everything you hope for in proportion to the extent it is made wisely and with only good intentions in your heart.