I want to encourage all voters who are sick of being presented with the same shitty presidential choices year after year to write-in Bernie Sanders.
Here's why...
The two-party system encourages bipartisan voting by using the old standard:
"If you don't vote for our candidate, the other one will win, and you don't want that!"
It's a fear tactic that forces people to cast a ballot to someone they wouldn't otherwise vote for.
The notion is that you will have wasted your vote writing-in the name of a candidate that cannot win, but I say NAY, AMERICA!
A vote is a voice! One voice will not get that much attention, but millions in unison will be noticed even if the intended candidate can't possibly win the election.
The truth is that your vote doesn't count, anyway. Read all about it in fifth-grade civics textbooks. The electoral college, though elected to represent our intentions, votes for whomever they wish. If they vote against those who put them in office, there is NO RECOURSE.
Your vote means absolutely nothing already, but it is still your voice.
Do you want your voice to say that you're simply voting for the lesser of the two evils being offered this year, or would you prefer your voice reflect that you won't be funneled into only one of two shitty choices?
You may not agree with my choice for Bernie Sanders, but you don't have to like either of the two shitbags currently up for election.
Don't cast your ballot out of fear. Cast it with a strong voice that says we're sick and fucking tired of corruption and corporate greed, and vote YOUR choice.
It won't change the election, but it might just let the right people know that a strong part of this country has values that are not in line with the status quo, and WE WANT CHANGE, not just four more years of the same corrupt shit, or the spokesperson for corporate deregulation in a workingman's disguise.
Make no mistake, Hillary and Trump are both wrong for the progress of this civilization.
Bernie!