2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sander's supporters: What would you do if Bernie ultimately asks you to vote for Hillary? [View all]mike_c
(36,281 posts)Would we vote for Donald Trump if Senator Sanders requested it? Of course not. He isn't fit for high public office. Neither is Senator Clinton, IMO. Senator Sander's recommendation would have to first convince me that she is not the same person who supported so many of the worst decisions American politicians made during the last 25 years. But mainly he'd have to convince me that the war of aggression against Iraq was not a crime against humanity.
I think this is just one more version of the straw man that I call the "nazis at the door" argument directed against pacifists. Would you take up arms and fight if there were nazis at your door? No? How about if they were raping your daughters? No? How about if they were torturing your grandmother? And so on, to further absurdity. First, let's wait until there are nazis at the door.