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I'm Voting For Hillary, But I Don't Want To

One person's perspective of the disaster that is the 2016 Election.

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I'm Voting For Hillary, But I Don't Want To
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My name is Cassidy. I am a female. I am 20 years old. This is the first year I get to vote for the next President of the United States and my choices are between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

You can imagine my disappointment. Months ago I was laughing at the idea that Donald Trump was running for President. I thought it had to be a joke. It wasn't. Not only does he have zero political experience, but he has a well-known history of being inappropriate and making poor money-related decisions. There have been rumors that he cheated on his wife for years, many of his companies have gone bankrupt, and he never served in the military. What does it take for America to realize he is not qualified to be President/Commander-in-Chief of the United States?

So from the very beginning, I knew I would never vote for him. His lack of experience and atrocious demeanor made him not an option for me. But as time went on, my options dwindled and now I am stuck with Hillary. The woman who stayed with her cheating husband, who is the epitome of a hypocrite, who deleted thousands-upon-thousands of emails containing confidential information, who is rumored to have played a role in the killing of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. As I research about these candidates, I am more and more tempted to skip voting altogether and move to another country. I cannot understand how it has come down to these two, out of the millions of American citizens, of which thousands would be either more respectable or more equipped (if not both) to be our President.

But that point has passed. My options are between Hillary and Donald. While I loathe the idea of either of them running this nation, my vote is going to Hillary. Even though my brain, heart, gut and every other organ of my body is telling me not to, I am. I can't help but ponder the fact that if she wins, it will be apart of history. She will be the first ever woman who is nominated as President of the United States. Every word, every decision she makes will be documented and it will be taught to future generations. She will determine if another female will ever be nominated for President.

I'm writing this article as a woman, an American citizen, a college student. I'm not familiar with politics, but I know what my research has taught me, and that is that neither of these candidates deserve to run this amazing country, and We The People should not have let it come to this.

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