Why I've Decided To Vote For Hillary Clinton
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Why I've Decided To Vote For Hillary Clinton

It took me a while to come to this decision

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Why I've Decided To Vote For Hillary Clinton
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"If you're choosing a heart surgeon and you have one with 30 years of experience performing complicated surgeries, but some of their patients have died, because it's the nature of the job, and the other one is a guy who says that no one ever died in his surgeries, simply because he not only never performed surgeries, he doesn't even have any medical training, would you select this guy to do your complicated hear surgery?"

That is how my mother, a yearlong Hillary supporter, describes the race between Trump and Hillary.

I've spent hours researching and listening to every side of the story, and I've come to the conclusion that Clinton, overall, is the best option. Granted, let's get this straight, Clinton has hew flaws, but this election, I feel like she has had to spend much more time defending her flaws from Donald Trump, and attacking him on his flaws, instead of pointing out her strengths.

Just to list a few of her important accomplishments:

- Helped veterans suffering from PTSD

- Negotiated a trade deal with Panama, Columbia and South Korea

- She traveled more than any Secretary of State to date (which was great for foreign relations)

- Pushed Congress to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program

Now, I can go on for a while, listing accomplishments of Hillary Clinton, she has been around for thirty years, and most people remember her failures. For every accomplishment I list, a Trump supporter will list a massive scandal that the media has pumped into everyone's brains.

Look, the reality is that under Obama our economy is doing better than it was under Bush, and that's simply facts. Of course, I disagree with many things that Obama has done, but politics is about compromise and that's why I'm compromising and voting for Clinton.

Yes, I seriously considered Jill Stein and even considered Gary Johnson, but after it was announced that neither of them would debate, I put that dream to rest. I like many of Stein's progressive policies, but it's not the time for a Green Party President. If we want to see America break out of the two-party system, we need to see Greens and Libertarians start taking other major offices (such as governor, House, Senate, etc). Change starts from the bottom-up, and I believe under Clinton, we'll continue on the route we're going, but this election has also thrown in a lot of new factors thanks to Bernie Sanders and the third party candidates. We'll see many progressive Democrats get elected and we may even see the third parties surge if at least one of them gets 5% of the vote (which will give their party federal funding).

Donald Trump is simply too dangerous to risk a presidency under him. With Clinton we know what we can expect, either a worse version of Obama, Obama 2.0, or a better version of Obama. With Trump, we have no idea what we're getting, and that is beyond dangerous. He could lead us to complete economic collapse, a civil war, or a nuclear war, and that is not a joke.

With Clinton, and with the political revolution that has been started in America, I believe we can achieve an America that works for everyone again. We can move forward together. Donald Trump will only push us back decades, because yes, he is a bigot, he is a sexist, he is a xenophobe, and he is a bumbling moron who literally lies when the truth is pushed right into his face and I want our country to still be here for the birth of my future children.

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