Question: If everyone believes that both of the choices were bad...why not choose someone else?

**Warning: The Somewhat Rare Serious Post About Politics**

I mean it's pretty easy to see neither Trump or Hillary were the best choices, but everyone seemed to forget that they weren't the only choices.

It's like going to Walmart (Keeping the American theme going here) looking at the first shelf by the door then thinking "Well I must buy something from here or nothing at all"

There are very valid reasons why neither of them should even be let into Washington DC, let alone The White House...but there were quite a few other candidates that didn't have such luggage.

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katielass · F

Well, why waste a vote on someone who doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Essentially you're giving your vote to the one you think is worse. In this case it would have been like voting for shrillary. And she was not better than trump by any stretch of the imagination. Most of my adult life it's been a choice of voting for the lesser of the evils. I doubt that's gonna change so better get used to it.

Niburu · 51-55, M

@katielass It's not a waste of a vote;
because voting [b]for[/b] someone is better than voting against some perceived boogeyman of a candidate
because you're supposed to vote for what you believe in
It's because of this very thought process that this country is stuck with these two out of control major parties.

Fangirlsarah1996 · 26-30, F

@katielass Why waste a vote on someone you don't believe in either?

If someone doesn't support Trump OR Hillary then why should they HAVE to vote for one or the other? There were an immense amount of people who voted like that, they didn't exactly agree with either of the two candidates but still voted for one because they didn't bother looking for other options.

Fangirlsarah1996 · 26-30, F

@Niburu Agreed, the far right and the far left are not groups that compliment eachother, like their less extreme counterparts, they tend to stay within their own groups and demonise the other, not making any progress in any direction except backwards.