# Now is not the time to come together as Americans

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-come-together-as-americans/771476 "2016-11-11T07:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-is-not-the-time-to-come-together-as-americans/771476/47 "2016-11-11T16:42:02Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> We were hoping that intelligent Republicans, led by Romney and the Bushes, would save the day. On this very Board we have our very own Republican who we thought had a 100+ IQ and who’d promised to vote rationally. Let’s listen in on his “thoughts”:  
> I guess it was hard to pick between the man who raped a 13-year old girl and the witch who murdered the Ambassador in Benghazi in cold blood, hunh **Brickhead**? What a moron!

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

> [@I live in the US, but I don't vote. Never have, never will. Ask Me Anything if you want.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-live-in-the-us-but-i-dont-vote-never-have-never-will-ask-me-anything-if-you-want/771059/196):
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> Because it seems relevant, I will share my own experience of voting today. I havealways voted, in every election since I was eligible.
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> As the election season unrolled this year, some of you may know that although I am not a fan of Mrs. Clinton, and believe her presidency will be a horrible one, I had nonetheless resolved to support over her main opponent, whose presidency I believe would be a more horrible one.
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> So I got my ballot and sat down. In my jurisdiction, we are handed paper ballots, mark them, and then they are ingested by a scanner.
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> I started to mark the ballot. I couldn’t.
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> I passed over the presidential electors, marked my choice for US Representative, chose my options for various bond issues… and then stared at the president’s choice again.
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> Finally I marked it for Trump. I couldn’t vote for Clinton.
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> I stood up and walked towards the scanner… and then I couldn’t put it in the scanner; I couldn’t vote for Trump.
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> I marked my ballot VOID and requested a new one. Sat back down. Filled out all the other spots again.
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> Finally I marked Clinton, stood up again. Sent the ballot into the scanner before I could change my mind again.
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> Outside some guy named Buridan had a donkey for sale.
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> The point of this little oversharing is to suggest that it’s not always irrational to refuse to vote.

By all means, bash away at the people who _voted for Trump_, or even the people who voted for a third party candidate, or who didn’t vote at all.

But attacking people _who voted for Clinton_ is beyond stupid.

Stay in your [fucking jungle](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=809984); don’t ever come back here to the United States; don’t vote in our elections; and set fire to your U.S. passport if you still have one.

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