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I don't want to vote for either Party, change my mind.
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"There's going to be a special place in Hell for people who spread lies through the veil of logical fallacies disguised as rational argument".
"Oh, you don't like my sarcasm? Well I don't much appreciate your stupid".
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What I don't believe in is party line voting. While some may disagree, both parties have corrupt and undesirable candidates. I believe a person should vote their conscience and if their conscience leads them to decide not to vote then so be it. It is not a crime to not vote in an election. In today political world I tend to believe you are voting for a particular agenda and not a candidate. Especially if you vote Democrat.
I myself am a conservative and tend to vote Republican. However, at the local level, I have voted for several Democratic candidates. Mainly because the Republicans were not getting it done and were poorly representing their constituents.
You never know, your one vote might be the one that tips the election to your candidates win.
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Ideological voting occurs when a citizen votes for the party or the individual based on the shared ideological values. If the values are not shared, then an ideological vote will not be cast.
Practical voting occurs when a citizen votes for the party which, in their opinion, stands as close to their ideological values as possible. For example, if 5 candidates are running for president, and the citizen dislikes all 5 of them, they will still cast their vote for the one they dislike the least. In this case, the only situation in which a vote might not be cast is when two or more of the candidates are evaluated equally by the citizen, and the citizen cannot make up their mind.
I tend to be the former personally, hence I have never voted for any party or individual candidate: there are very few parties and politicians that share my libertarian value on how the society should function. However, in the US, while I strongly dislike both parties for various reasons, I dislike the Republican party, in general, a bit less than the Democratic party, hence, were I a practical voter, I would vote for the former.
It is also worth noting that extra considerations may affect one's desire to vote. For example, while in general I am an ideological voter with a slight bias towards the Republican party, I do think that the Democratic party winning in 2018 would lead to a better outcome, as the executive and the legislative branch dominated by different parties leads to stronger checks and balances, in my opinion. If I absolutely had to vote for someone in 2018, I would probably vote Democrat, even though I dislike their party more than GOP.
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What this means in your case is that you first should consider which type of voter you are: ideological or practical. If you are an ideological voter, then your mind does not need to be changed, since your stance reflects your values perfectly. If, however, you are a practical voter, then you might want to consider the victory of which party in 2018 leads to the overall better (or "less bad", if you want to put it that way) outcome, and vote for that party, regardless of your ideological stance on that party's values and its current state.
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On a side note, you are factually wrong about most Democrats wanting Bernie. Hillary won both the public vote (by a tiny margin) and the superdelegate vote (by a large margin), hence more Democratic voters wanted her to win than Bernie. Bernie built a very effective populist campaign, just like Trump did, making his supporters believe that America as a whole is with them - but facts do not lie, and Hillary was a more attractive candidate in the eyes of the average democratic voter, than Sanders.
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