Dear Bernie or Bust Voters: You Should Vote Trump

This has to be the most painfully obvious thing I’ve ever realized.

If you’re a diehard “Bernie or Bust” Berner, Bernie all the way, Bernie or die — obviously you should vote for Donald Trump.

Let me make one thing clear — if you really think Trump is the scum of the 
Earth but you refuse to vote for Hillary, you’re being incredibly immature. We live in a two-party system. Like it or not, you have two choices at the polls — Trump or Hillary. If you really think Trump is the anti-christ and you don’t want to see him in office, the only other way your voice is going to be heard is if you vote for Hillary. If you’re an independent, if you vote independent — you don’t matter. An independent is not going to win (they’re never going to win) — I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. Vote independent and you’re just not going to to matter.

The president is going to be Hillary or the president is going to be Trump. Those are your choices. That’s how this works. Voting for someone else out of an emotional need to “support” neither Hillary nor Trump is exactly that — it’s purely emotional, it’s petty, and it’s immature.

But if you insist on being immature, do something that matters.

Vote for Trump. You want to show the world that you mean business? Do something radical. Tell the institution, “Fine. You wouldn’t give Bernie the nomination? Then we’re going to vote for Trump. You didn’t want Trump to win? You should have given Bernie the nomination.”

Bernie’s numbers have always been there. He’s always been projected to beat Trump if he won the nomination. Hillary? Not so much.

Think about it this way.

A person holds a gun to your head and they give you a choice. Kill this baby and subsequently eat it, or just kill this baby. Which one are you going to pick?

If you’re a rational, decent human being, you refuse to answer that question. It’s barbaric, it’s awful, and you’re not going to take part in this hypothetical discussion (because what kind of a person would ask you something like that?)

Now, reframe the question: A baby’s mother holds a gun to your head and gives you a choice: kill my baby and eat it, or kill my baby. If you don’t answer, she’s going to kill you. Or, I don’t know, she’s going to press a button that terminates the entire human race. You get the idea.

She keeps having babies and she keeps asking you the question, over and over again, until the end of time.

Which do you choose?

You choose the one that makes her regret asking you the question in the first place. You choose the one that causes the most damage. You choose the one that gets her attention.

If the Bernie or Bust voters vote Trump into office, trust me: they’ll get everybody’s attention.

So fuck the democratic party, fuck Hillary, and fuck what Bernie himself actually wants you to do. Be radical, be disrespectful, be crazy, and prove that you actually matter.

Make a petition, sign it, say “we’re voting Trump because you made the wrong choice. We’re voting Trump because this whole system is broken — and we don’t give a damn about whether or not Trump is the one to fix it. We give a damn about you having the chance to change things — to change everything — by giving Bernie the nomination… and you didn’t. So, now, we all get to suffer.”

Then, actually do it. Show up at the polls, push Trump into the presidency.

Then we have four years of hell.

Then what? We have Bernie vs. Trump. Or we have someone like Bernie vs. Trump. (Or maybe World War III, who fuckin knows).

Or maybe nothing changes at all — maybe Hillary gets the nomination and the world plays out in exactly the way everyone expects it to. And then? Well, I guess Bernie or Bust really didn’t matter after all.

But at least you did something powerful, crazy, and intelligent.