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I voted for Trump in the general. I couldn't stand the idea of Clinton walking into the White House. She disgusted me and, as Michael Moore stated numerous times, voting for Trump seemed like a huge "Fuck you!" to the current political system that I had looked upon with disdain and apathy. So Trump wins, all is great, right? Except his cabinet picks have been lackluster, he has already backtracked on numerous issues, and has not shown a capability to see past his own nose when it comes to picking fights with "fake news".

He has not shown me anything that has impressed me since his "drain the swamp" message was disavowed by the man less than a week after the election. I just hope that he ends up rejuvenating my dying hope that he could really be the anti-establishment candidate he tried so hard to prove he was in the primaries.

I voted for Trump in the general. I couldn't stand the idea of Clinton walking into the White House. She disgusted me and, as Michael Moore stated numerous times, voting for Trump seemed like a huge "Fuck you!" to the current political system that I had looked upon with disdain and apathy. So Trump wins, all is great, right? Except his cabinet picks have been lackluster, he has already backtracked on numerous issues, and has not shown a capability to see past his own nose when it comes to picking fights with "fake news". He has not shown me anything that has impressed me since his "drain the swamp" message was disavowed by the man less than a week after the election. I just hope that he ends up rejuvenating my dying hope that he could really be the anti-establishment candidate he tried so hard to prove he was in the primaries.

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I will never ridicule someone for voting for who they genuinely believe is the best choice. With that said, I'll say this. I understand the push for Johnson, however he's just never been presidential material in my eyes (inb4 you voted Trump). I did meet him back in 2012 when he ran then and I've followed him loosely ever since and he has done much to impress me. He's hardly Libertarian, some of his policies either completely miss the parties agenda or they are too far out there to ever get voted into office. He has supported the TPP (huge no-no as a so-called Libertarian) and has seemed very much so in support of the establishment his party hates.

He also just seemed very immature from when I met him. Like I said, I'll never ridicule someone for voting with their conscience (especially third party) but Johnson was never a real candidate in my eyes.

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the point was never to name johnson president, he'd be an awful president, it was always to get someone else 5% of the vote. satan himself could have ran for president and if he were leading the polls of third parties, i'd vote for him. the last morsel of hope i had for the next 4 years died with bernie's campaign (though, to be clear, bernie was a good friend of hillary's and would hardly have been better than hillary) so the only reasonable response in my eyes was to look forward to 2020 and try to affect that election as best i can. i expect i will be in the same situation in 2020, just as i was in 2012.

if the lesser of two evils is still too evil for you, why not throw a vote at someone who wont win but who's votes could change the formula for the next election so its at least different than the last two?