Wow—so “the Clinton people” are lumping all of the Sanders supporters into one group? You get that that’s funny, right?

Yes but Sanders is hardly the standard bearer for pragmatic politics—he’s very pointedly raged against it as a means of bolstering his street cred as a progressive. And if he were truly interested in taking back red states, why wouldn’t he have gone all in to support Jon Ossoff—his active support might have pushed him…

That’s a completely illogical analogy. You provided two examples where you CAN’T do something as opposed to voting, where you clearly COULD do something but CHOSE not to. And even in your twisted example: I’d still say don’t be a selfish asshole—go to the one your friends most want to go to anyway, enjoy their…

“Conscientious objection is in fact a choice, and anyone who exercised that choice should not be belittled or made to feel bad about it.”

Bullshit that they did nothing to hurt Clinton. If Hillary’s popular vote beat Trump’s by 20 instead of 2 points, you don’t think the electors—many of whom are not bound by their state’s vote—would be a hell of a lot more easily persuaded to vote for the national popular vote winner?

Even if you equally hated each candidate, there’s no way you could have felt equally toward their platforms. So no—I don’t buy the “conscientious objector” concept in this situation. And people who game the system based on their assumptions about whether THEIR vote is needed to change the state’s vote are no better…