DISCLAIMER: This is an opinion piece. I do not speak for anyone else other than myself. I am not telling anyone to vote for a certain candidate, I am merely sharing my opinion on a very important part of our democracy.

I will be voting for Hillary Clinton this coming Tuesday. No, I am not voting for her because I want to elect the first woman president. And no, I am not voting for her just because she is the nominee of my political party. I am voting for her because she is the best chance we have to not ruin our country.

Let me explain.

I was a Bernie supporter since the day I turned 18. He wasn't like other politicians that I had seen, and he stands for things that I was passionate about; affordable school, wealth inequality, combating climate change and getting big money out of politics. I supported his campaign, I went to a rally in St. Paul, MN, I bought two bumper stickers and I even supported him while I was a delegate to my county convention and as an alternate to the state convention. If the party had wanted him to be the nominee, I would still be with Bernie. But as fate would have it, he is not and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Nominee.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not the biggest fan of Hillary Clinton. Just because I am voting for her does not mean that I am absolutely in love with her. I don't like how robotic she is, I'm not a fan of the controversies surrounding her and the paid speeches left a bad taste in my mouth. But nevertheless, I will vote for her because it is the only option I have to make sure an egotistical maniac doesn't get elected as President of the United States.

Why I am not voting third-party.

Now some of you will tell me to vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. At this moment, in my opinion, voting for a third-party in a presidential election is a waste of a vote. For one, they do not appeal to a wide enough base of voters to even be in the running. Neither candidate could even get into any of the debates. And second, none of the options are all that great. Jill Stein thinks she can forgive all student debt by something called quantitive easing, which is used for something completely different than what she plans to do with it. And Gary Johnson. Oh, Gary Johnson. He couldn't name a world leader he admires in an interview. He wants to eliminate the Department of Commerce, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Department of Education. And he stands for the opposite things that I do.

To add on to that, if I were to vote third-party, I would be helping elect a man less qualified to be president than any of my college professors. He insults women daily, brags about groping women, wants to build a wall that would cripple this country economically and socially, wants to ban an entire religion from entering this country as well as monitor them while they are in the country and claimed that President Obama wasn't born in the United States.

Why Hillary.

To put it lightly, I am voting for Hillary because I don't want Donald Trump to be the President. He a Hitler-esque figure and leads by hate and shouting. He has no intention of being for the people. He is only doing this for himself. He says he knows what sacrifice is; that is nonsense. Everything in his life was handed to him on a silver platter. If he can't even keep a hotel up and running, how is he going to run a country? He'll probably abandon it at the first chance he gets.

So, to wrap this up in a nice bow, I am not voting for my first choice, I am voting for my only choice. My choices are either Donald Trump, a man who can't even keep up with his own lies, or Hillary Clinton, a woman who knows what this job entails and how to use that power. I don't know about anyone else, but I'll take the latter.