The Lesser Of Two Evils

It is 12:15pm on Wednesday February 5th and the the results of the Iowa caucus are still up in the air. The Iowa Democratic party has released a majority of the results and so far Pete Buttigieg is in the lead with 26.8% of the state delegate equivalents and Sanders trailing right behind him with 25.1%. We don’t have the final results yet and we are already seeing an increased number of attacks against Pete Buttigieg from within the Democratic party and the mainstream media. This is not a new phenomenon, god knows I am guilty of posting/reposting anti-Hilary articles all over social media in 2016 when she won the Iowa Caucus. I was a full fledged Bernie supporter and wanted him to win so badly. His messaged resonated with me, as it did with so many younger voters. He had started a revolution and we wanted him to put him in power so he could change everything we thought were the root cause of the income equality and the lopsided national economics that seemed to favor the top 1% of the 1%.

Unlike some of my former facebook friends who supported Donald Trump, I never went as far as claiming Hilary frequented “Sex-islands” or that she was running a children sex ring out of Pizza shop. I did however attack her policies, her behavior towards women who accused her husband of sexual misconduct and the fact that she was just not Bernie. Every time Hillary won a state, Bernie supporters kept ramping up the attacks until she won the nomination which I honestly think broke the Democratic party. Bernie supporters were so mad and felt so cheated that most of them decided to vote for third party candidates.

For the rest of us, this phrase became mantra:

“I am voting for Hillary because she is the lesser of the two evils”

This phrase still haunts me today.

I am not saying Hillary would have been an amazing President, she was not perfect. She was a career politician and by definition she had done unsavory things to survive in the toxic political environment we have in Washington, however, I think we (democrats and some republicans) can agree that she would have been an infinitely better President than Donald Trump currently a few (unlikely) votes away from being found guilty in the senate and removed from office for abusing his powers in soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 US Elections and asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden his (unlikely) rival in November.

I think us Bernie bros attacking Hillary SO FEROCIOUSLY in the primaries let to everyone claiming she was the “lesser of the two evils” in the general election and therefore severely hurt her chances of beating Donald Trump in 2016.

We must not repeat our mistakes from 2016. Attacking a fellow democrat just because he is not our favorite candidate will divide us and hand Donald Trump his second term on a silver platter. We must remain united with the goal of beating Donald Trump in the 2020 general election.

Donald Trump will be attacking our front runner with the hope of making them weaker in the general election, we must not help him achieve this.

I pledge here and now that I will be supporting the democratic candidate whomever it may be and I will not attack any of them for any reason, will you?