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Originally posted by Nina:
Because the likely non-D alternative is

I don't understand why this simple concept is so difficult to grasp. We're not talking hypotheticals here. If there's a viable candidate that makes you gag less, you vote for that candidate in the general election. Emphasis on viable, as in "has a chance to win." I think the stakes are too high to throw away your vote on a meaningless protest. I say meaningless, because those votes for write-in candidates (anyone but Hillary, Bernie wuz robbed), or those who stayed home and did't vote at all, gave us Trump. So how's that protest working out for us?

Primaries are a whole different animal. There's a reason why the GOP are behaving like a bunch of spineless wimps, and it has to do largely with fear of "being primaried."