I didn't vote this year. The 2016 election would be the first time I would be legally allowed to vote, yet I didn't. I refused to vote, not because I'm a lazy entitled millennial but because I refused to choose the lesser of two evils.

I already know I'm going to get a lot of B.S for not voting but the truth is I wasn't going to vote for Hillary Clinton just because I didn't want a non-qualified bigot Donald J Trump to win. Which beckons the question as to why I didn't vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. Well, I care about my reproductive rights and I also would like my president to be qualified for the position. Both Trump and Clinton are individuals that are not great people in general. One evades millions of dollars in taxes and the other hides proof of sketchy ongoings in the middle east. How am I expected to make a choice between someone who has orchestrated terrors and someone who excites hate throughout the country?!

I didn't vote this year because I believe our nation had a better chance to make things progress in an already great direction. President Obama has changed so much in his 8 years of office and this election threatened to destroy everything the Obama family has worked for. When this nation chose Trump to represent us I was disappointed but not surprised. Us choosing Trump was like an alcoholic denying that the alcohol will end them one day. I believe that the president of the U.S shouldn't instill fear in the nation's minorities just because they're gay, Muslim, Hispanic, etc. I don't want to live in a country that makes people scared or where I have to watch my back for hateful people.

So please... do lecture me about not voting. Blame me for the presidential candidates this country has offered us.