We’re not.
I’ve seen a recurring theme here since Sen Sanders loss in Nevada yesterday, a theme that goes a little bit like this...and tell me if you’ve heard this one before...”I’m just not going to vote for Clinton, that will show them! Yeah, that’ll teach them all a big lesson”.
No, it won’t.
First, the threat is meaningless and hollow, if for no other reason than no matter how bad you think things are now, they can and will always get worse. Ask the nice people of Wisconsin about that, Scott Walker and the Republicans have rat fucked that poor state silly in ways it may never recover.
So, here are your options.
Option One is that Hillary Clinton gives you half a pizza. Now, you may have wanted that whole pie, and it looked really good, but that’s probably not going to work out for you. Still, pizza is pizza, and pizza’s pretty damned good.
Option Two is that Republicans burn your whole fucking house down.
And they will, because they’re crazy and live in outer space most of the year. Seriously, they have a total hate on and they’re coming to get you.
You want a fifteen dollar minimum wage? Hillary wants to start at twelve and work on it. Republicans want to repeal child labor laws for Christs sake.
Marijuana legalization is evolving. Let’s be honest, it will probably happen under a Clinton administration anyway. Republicans will keep being fucking Narcs.
If you vote, we will stack the Supreme Court with some amazing legal minds and overturn Citizens United. Healthcare will cover more people. Civil rights will be strengthened. Labor Unions will grow. The second amendment will be reinterpreted and we’re gonna grab us some guns. Gays and Lesbians will stay happily married. Abortion rights will actually expand and we might actually get something done with the environment.
If you don’t vote, Republicans will stack the Supreme Court with total assbags. Citizens United will stay the law of the land, and get worse, because they’ll change the law to only count legal voters when redistricting. People of color will hounded and disenfranchised by racists in brooks brothers suits. Healthcare will be taken away from tens of millions and people will die. Labor Unions will be outlawed entirely, like day one. The Second Amendment will grow to include god knows what open carried god knows where. Gays and Lesbians will see their right to marry get taken away, and abortion will be outlawed completely, even in cases of rape and incest. Can’t breathe the air, can’t drink the water, good luck, because everything’s burning anyway...and welcome back to the year 1855.
I’m not even including a quarter million American troops suddenly parachuting over Iran, because President Cruz is on some half ass mission from god.
Half a pizza, or a dystopian apocalypse?
It’s not really a choice, so yes, you are going to begrudgingly vote for Clinton if she wins, like I will begrudgingly vote for Sanders if he wins. I don’t have to like it, I just have to do it, and so do you, because the consequences of not voting are the things nightmares are made of.
Look, losing sucks, if it were any fun, it would be called winning.
And I’m not going to lie, Sanders Supporters, the next two weeks are going to be pretty shitty for you, but then you’re going to win some and we’re going to feel pretty shitty too. That’s the sausage making of politics.
It’s a long race and neither candidate is dropping out any time soon, the best one will win in the end, but don’t think for a moment that withholding your vote is some kind of a threat, because it’s not, it’s a suicide pact.
And I’d much rather have pizza.
