Not Our Fault Won't Vote for Clinton

Thursday, August 4, 2016
Dear Harvey,
I agree with you, about Trump.
However, as a long time patient activist, I have grown extremely tired with the Clinton machine, the conservatism that Hillary displays, and yes, the crooked dealings of the DNC.
For several decades now, I have been patient, and so have many other progressives and voters.
Hillary may fail, but it is not the fault of us voters who are democrats, or greens, or socialists, or just people who want help and change, we have been working hard.
That is more than thirty years of patience, dedicated striving, that I and many, many others have delivered in order to build a sustainable future for humans in the world and us in the U.S.
I have been working on the grassroots level for change in areas such as pro-labor, the environmental movement, anti-war, and other grassroots movements on the left, and I have worked to get Democrats elected continuously.
Hillary, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and other establishment Dems are not strongly enough "about" the future, and "they" have not delivered at all for us.
Whereas, though Trump is a fascist, we are out of waiting time.
We who are not particularly brilliant, or wealthy, or who have not any great status, understood years ago, that the time for empire is over.
It is time for more change, for less war, for more alternative media and energy and a green mind-set.
Sadly, the Democratic Party made this decision to force our votes before.
For so many years, we did what "they", the establishment Democrats said, and now, we are finished with "the lesser of two evils" and Clinton.
We know Bernie actually would have won, because we did the math, and we clearly analyzed with rationality that was credible, accurate, and saw the DNC do illegal things to force a victory for Hillary.
We also knew however, that our votes might not be counted.
So, we all watched very, very closely this year, and of course, "they", the Democrats of the establishment did not count our votes, again.
We saw the mainstream media, essentially play the same game "they" played in 2000, duping us out of going to vote, by "calling" the election early.
We were finished a long time ago, with the Dems, yet we voted for them, for decades to prevent, "the worse of two evils".
Yet, "they", (the DNC, Hillary, etc.), kept refusing to really hear us, meet our needs, believe us...she voted for the attack on Iraq...and so much else.
The urgency we activists understood twenty years ago, in 1996, of the need for change, motivated us to give so much, for decades, for our country.
We gave and gave to get Al Gore elected, while he refused to recount all of Florida, he refused to fully reject the theft of that election of the year 2000.
Then we gave to John Kerry, only to have him concede to Bush, in the election of 2004, for what reason, we will never know.
Then, we worked hard, so very hard and gave so much to get Obama elected and he did not fully deliver.
Now, Obama has endorsed Hillary.
We thought for the past twenty years that we should work for our futures, and give up the money and effort we could have expended on ourselves.
But, Harvey, we have not seen that "they" appreciated our work for them, or even really understood what we needed them to do, not John Kerry, not Al Gore, and no, not Obama, or Hillary.
Hillary's world-view is extremely stale and old, outdated and unhelpful.
Sadly, we are over it.
We have watched for decades as "they" have lied, those democrats of the establishment, and we saw them manipulate the truth, so many times that many people now actually fully "know it".
Now, twenty four years after the first Clinton got elected and did not help us much, we still have given a lot to our grassroots movements, and we voted continually, for the "lesser of two evils", we are fed-up.
Now, in the last days and years when we might save ourselves on this planet, we are sickened by that tactic, and can no longer force ourselves to do it.
We will get the changes we need, and we know that Hillary will not do this for us.
So, perhaps Harvey, this is something you can still stomach, voting for "the lesser of two evils".
As much as Trump is the worst ever, truly, we can no longer allow ourselves to be manipulated, and forced.
We think "they" forced Trump on us, so we would vote for the "lesser of two evils", and we watched the corruption of the DNC unravel our attempts at democratic elections.
We know that Hillary won't help us, enough, and that it is because of the weaknesses and the corruption of the Democratic Party, the DNC, and the establishment Dems that we have been delivered over to Trump.
Therefore, we do not wish to vote for Trump, however, neither can we allow the fabrications, falsifications and the forced- vote, that is the very actually, coerced vote for Hillary.
We have been put into an impossible position.
It is not our fault.
We did not bring this on ourselves.
We have been working very hard for change, "they" the democratic establishment brought it upon us.
We will not be moved, and vote for "the lesser of two evils", and we will hold accountable those other establishment Democrats who delivered this mess upon us, for a change.
Sincerely,
Elise Casby
Long time democratic activist