Let me first say I have zero interest or intention of asking, demanding, requesting or in any other way persuading or even hinting that anyone else needs to explain or justify their vote to me or anyone else.
In fact, at this point I am past caring. I consider Mrs. Clinton a catastrophe, not to mention an indictment, waiting to happen. I believe one of two things will happen should she be elected:
1. She will undoubtedly be the first president impeached AND removed from office. Even if the Democrats take the Senate. Some folks might want to stop and think about how many of us who have been continually insulted by Clinton supporters are NOT going to be petitioning our Senators to keep her in office.
2. Through a combination of bloodthirsty warmongering and simple incompetence she will get our nation involved in a general war we cannot win.
I intend to financially support Sen Sanders campaign by check, so I can prove, if I ever need to, that I did not aid and abet the War Criminal Clinton.
Sure, I could wish that Sen Sanders were a better, stronger candidate. I wish he were ten years younger. I wish his program included closing overseas American bases and bringing our young men and women home and putting them to work here at home. I wish he were calling for an across the board transactions tax on all transactions over a specified amount,, such as $US2M, for example. I wish he were calling for protective tariffs to support American manufactures. I wish he would promise to revive the anti-trust lawsuit against Monsanto. No, Sanders has never visited my neighborhood either, for the very good reason that I am not among his Vermont constituents. I don’t know about anyone else, but I expect Senators from my state to spend their time IN my state, listening to constituents, when they are not about the public business in DC.
I would say, in general terms, to Clinton supporters, that while I respect your right to vote as you choose and not have to explain it, this year, intransigence has finally gone too far. I parted company with the Democratic Party when I realized that Democrats were in bed with the biotech industry and agribusiness and I strongly suspect that others will do the same, for the same or similar reasons, this year, if they have not done so already. BTW, anti GMO and anti agribiz is NOT a reflection of “comparative privilege”, it is a matter of urgent concern to residents of rural areas, whose air, water and soil are contaminated by dangerous chemicals like glyphosate, and to folks who don’t qualify for Medicare and who can’t afford private health care.
I have had it with having it implied that I have to put up with a chemically laced food supply and toxic soil, air and water because...jobs for immigrant farm workers. There will always be the need for farmers and farm workers for the simple reason that people have to eat. Whether or not the farmers practice regenerative techniques. Being allies is supposed to mean that you get something you need and I get something I need, and I am not seeing anything for me in Clinton’s program, insofar as she even has one.
What I think could begin to happen as early as this summer is an alliance, leading to a possible new party, between environmentalists and supporters of regenerative agriculture, and some of the more sensible and responsible, and soon to be former, Republicans. The geographic base of such an alliance or new party would be the PNW, New England, New York State outside of NYC, and parts of the rural Midwest with strong support in Rocky Mountain States. And then the pack of far left high urbanite internationalists would no longer be able to count on our votes to put their candidates in office.