This is the article I didn't want to write. The one I put off for as long as possible because it's simply not pleasant. By this point, people are sick of the election and talking about it, but for me as a political science major, my grades literally depend on talking and being in the know about it. I have no qualms sharing who I'm voting for, anymore (see previous article, "The Dirtiest Word in the South"), so I'll share it with you now: I'm not voting for Donald Trump. This election has been like no other, it's been an election of negative voting, a situation where a candidate is so unpopular the opponent gets votes based on that. Lucky for 2016, this term applies to both candidates and that is precisely what I am doing. I do think Hillary Clinton is very qualified for the job, and I am personally pretty pumped about the fact she is a woman, but do I think she if perfect? No. Do I realize Donald Trump is also human and capable of mistakes? Yes. But there is a glaring flaw in voting for Trump because he's considered the "lesser of two evils" and that is his character. I can hear readers audibly groaning. I know the country is sick of hearing about Donald's latest fiasco, some have even started to say it doesn't matter, but I ask you to listen to the leaked audio of him from 2005 one more horrible time. Did you catch that? The pride in his voice? What if your neighbor next door had said these things and you happened to overhear him? Wouldn't you cling to your daughter more closely? Would you move? If you heard your neighbor claim he groped a woman's crotch against her will and talk about it so casually like he went out to eat, would you report him as a sexual predator? When the word's are in someone else's mouth, they become so much more dangerous, don't they? Then why are we not holding a potential president up to the same standard as our neighbors? I know a lot of people may try to make this same argument against Clinton, but let's be real, has she ever come across as uplifting sexual assault? Donald Trump on social media, national television, on debate stages, in interviews, with the whole nation watching, has degraded women by calling them "bimbos" and attempting to discredit their professionalism, and in a world that is already hostile to women, we cannot afford any regression into the 20th century. We must set the example as a nation that fosters the rights and well-being of women, but if the face of our nation has proven he cannot do that, why would we even consider him for such a prominent role?

Many people like to ask what our founding fathers would have wanted, and while we can't ask them, we can ask the document they left for us, the Constitution. According to article 3 of the constitution, the President's main job is to be the ultimate diplomat to the world, and when one considers the job of diplomat it requires someone who looks at the other party as equals in order to come to an agreement. Trump's character has proven time and time again that he does not view women equally, he views them as objects he "can't help but kiss" when he sees them, and that is too dangerous for the world to hear our president say. This is why he can't make it to that position, he must not. His character reflects that of our nation, and if this is how you want our nation to be represented, then by all means, vote for him. But I for one, cannot in good conscience. For women everywhere, I refuse to let the United States be one more nation hostile to women, all because of the character of one man.