Lol, can we talk about how stupid this is? Like I get your vote is in Hawaii so it doesn’t actually matter, but this kind of attitude is why liberals are perennial losers in the US electoral system in spite of having wildly more popular policy ideas. Given the way the US elections are set up this is throwing your vote away. In the primary you should vote for who you align with most closely, but not voting for the candidate that most aligns with your views and has a chance to win in the general election is just insanely stupid. The thing I hate about being liberal in the US is how incredibly unpragmatic other liberals are. For example, I, as a gay man, will vote for the incredibly homophobic Tulsi Gabbard if she wins the primary. Because even though I think she is homophobic (she is), as a democratic president, she’ll be politically pressured to appoint judges that aren’t homophobic. If the people in MI, WI, and PA who felt the same way you did in 2016 had sucked it up and voted Hillary, it’s possible the liberal movement might not be as strong (though I really doubt that, unlike Republicans, Democrats are willing to criticize their own (which is a good thing)), but the Supreme Court would have a 5-4 liberal majority with Kennedy, and with a younger replacement for Ginsburg. 5 justices would oppose citizens united, allowing for impactful changes to certain electoral processes. 5 justices would support voting rights and (more specifically) the voting rights act, making election rigging harder for conservatives. And 6 justices would support women’s health rights, which would prevent it from being in its current tenuous position. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Hillary was a particularly good candidate (she wasn’t) nor am I saying I preferred her over Bernie (I’m probably ideologically farther left socially than either and in the middle, though maybe closer to Sanders economically). But like damn, people really miss the big picture when voting.
All of this is opposed to republicans, who not only fell in line when their choice was a completely unqualified, out of touch, old man that clearly either has Alzheimer’s, NPD, or both. But voted for a candidate who in his life time has managed to violate every moral pillar they claim to stand for (3 marriages, 5 (at least) kids, cheated on every wife, bragged about sexual assault, has almost definitely paid for a misstress to get an abortion, slept with and bribed a porn star, etc.). I don’t expect anyone to abandon their values and felate the candidate regardless of what they do, like certain conservatives on this website have done over the past two years. But damn, is voting for the candidate that most closely aligns with you that can actually win really too much to ask? Say what you want about Republican hypocrisy and values (or lack there of), but at least they’re playing to win, and maybe I’m a garbage liberal but I’d much rather have a person who is less ideologically pure than myself be president than someone whose values are the antithesis of mine.
Anyways, I acknowledge this is my second rant in this thread that does not relate explicitly to the candidate I’m voting for in the primaries or why, but I honestly don’t know yet. Probably gonna have to do some research.