Bernie Sanders supporter: No, I won’t vote for Hillary Clinton
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters in Santa Monica on June 7, the night of the California primary.
To the editor: Count me out on switching to supporting Hillary Clinton for president. (“Sanders voters in California look for concessions from Clinton, but most will support her — if reluctantly,” June 13)
Anyone for Sen. Bernie Sanders is truly for economic and environmental reform so desperately needed to save our nation and the world. Clinton’s ascendency guarantees a snarky, catastrophic end to hope for these essential changes as she funnels more money away from the vanishing middle classes and working people into military ambitions.
Since I first voted in 1972, there has never been a truly progressive option for the presidency, and I won’t vote for the lesser of two destructive candidates again. How did President Obama follow through on his promises to end overseas wars and close the prison at Guantanamo Bay? Moreover, he has overseen our nation’s largest shift to a spying police state.
I voted for the black male George W. Bush in 2008, but I won’t vote for the white female Bush in 2016. As The Who once sang to my generation, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
Gabby Hyman, Granada Hills
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