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Don't Ask Me Who I'm Voting For

Because, honestly, I don't know.

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Don't Ask Me Who I'm Voting For
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So, I live in Philadelphia. If you don’t know, the Democratic National Convention is happening in Philly this week. I also work at CVS. The CVS I work at is in South Philly, right across the street from the Wells Fargo Center. If you don’t know, the DNC is happening at the Wells Fargo Center. This wouldn’t be a huge issue except that the CVS is the only place that sells food within a 15-minute walk of the WFC, and it’s the only place visible from the WFC. I can assure you that it’s been crazy.

The crowd coming in is filled with volunteers, police officers, the press and -- my favorite -- protestors. Now, I feel like the word “protestor” has a negative connotation or at least the way I’ve been hearing it so far this week. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I mean there are the 'anti-abortion, God hates gay people' protestors that I don’t like, but for the most part, the demonstrations and marches have been from groups that I identify with, like the Bernie Sanders supporters and the BlackLivesMatter Movement. And interacting with all these activists has me thinking.

Can I really give up my moral values for the sake of not giving Trump the election?

Hillary Clinton, in my opinion, would be a perfectly fine president. I think a Clinton presidency would look like an Obama presidency, maybe a little less liberal. But I also have faith that she’d do anything to get reelected meaning that she’d push the progressive agenda at least for her first four years.

However, I have a ton of issues with her. For starters, there’s just some illuminati stuff going on with her and her husband. They absolutely must have sold their souls to get where they’re at now. Second, I just can’t trust her. She’s done so much shady stuff -- like the email scandal and the things with the missing files -- and while she’s never been convicted of anything, there’s probably even worse things she’s done that she’s been more careful about. And why does she get away with everything? (Illuminati!)

I don’t think she actually cares about us, about the people. I haven’t actually seen her have a good interaction with an everyday person. Maybe that’s just because I tend to follow media outlets that don’t support her, but it’s alarming the amount of poor interactions she’s had with minorities and lower income families. She is the definition of white corporate feminism. She only cares about people like her and is shocked to find that anyone could live any other way. Most importantly, she has big business in her pocket. My two biggest issues with politics are voter suppression and getting big business out of politics.

And, honestly, I'm so scared that she won't work with the people. That everything she changed her mind on to unify the party -- aka to gain Sanders supporters -- was just to get the vote. I'm scared that there will be more war, more gang violence -- a throwback to the '90s when she and her husband decided to crack down on drug use and contributed to the the tremendously unnecessary War on Drugs. And I'm scared there will be less freedoms for the lower class and an overall conservative viewpoint on serious issues.

So how can I vote for her? Because, if not, it guarantees a Trump presidency? I don’t know if that’s enough for me to give up everything I’ve been fighting for for so long, now.

Maybe by the time the election rolls around, I’ll suck it up and give her my vote, but as of now, I’m hoping so badly that a strong third party candidate comes out of the woodwork. More than anything, I hope by the end of this week, the super delegates realize that Bernie is a much better candidate for both securing a win for the Democratic Party and for the people and switch over to his side. The nomination is, technically, contested at this point. But that’s a long shot.

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