I'm a Bernie supporter, but I have to agree 100% with what John writes below:
From AMERICAblog:
There's a common misconception that elections are job interviews; and that candidates need to "earn" our vote, as if we're doing them a favor by putting them in office. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Elections are selfish. They're not about the candidates, they're about us. They're about choosing someone who will have inordinate influence over our lives and our livelihoods for the next four years.
To the degree that the job metaphor is apt, picking a president is more like picking a nanny for your kids. Except in this case, it's down to two candidates, and one is going to get hired. Your only options are to pick one, pick the other, or don't pick either and let someone else make the choice for you.
To take the analogy a bit further, let's call the first nanny Hillary. As hard as you try, Hillary just doesn't move you. You see, there was another nanny named Bernie, and you adored Bernie. But Sadly, Bernie didn't make the cut. So now you're left choosing between Hillary, who doesn't excite you, and another nanny named Donald, who is categorically crazy and hates your kids.
Your only choice is to hire Hillary, hire Donald, or let some stranger choose which of the two is going to have ultimate say over the most important thing in your life.
I've seen people talk about how Hillary Clinton is "bad" on fracking, and Wall Street, and money in politics, so they're just not going to vote for her in November unless she does something "big" to win them over. But how is Donald Trump on all of those issues? Far worse than Hillary, in fact. And how is Donald Trump on the civil rights of gays, women, blacks, Latinos, and Muslims? How is Donald Trump on climate change, immigration, criminal justice, gun violence, privacy, health care, and caring about the middle and working classes? And how is Donald Trump on a woman's right to choose? Awful, awful, awful.
If you choose not to support Hillary in the fall, because of some misguided notion of what she "owes" you, then you choose to cede the election to a man who will destroy every cause that Bernie Sanders, and you, once claimed to care about. And while you may be in a position in life that it won't affect you directly if Trump bans Muslims, repeals Obamacare, and does everything he can to hurt gays, blacks, Latinos and women, is that really why you felt the Bern this election—because you put your own disappointment over the needs of the many?
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