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I'm on a mission that Dreamers say is impossible. But when I swing my sword, they all choppable.

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  2. Honestly, I'd prefer announced bias and intentions over an objectivity that can't really exist.

  3. I took exception to Sanders declining to answer a question. Utterly backwards to then do the same thing.

  4. Essentially the argument for why so many "public figures" just "no comment" everything.

  5. Right. But I didn't reconsider. That's the whole point. Can both critique someone and vote for them.

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    Teachers face same dilemma. Don’t want to close class convo by sharing POV prematurely, but if students ask, I answer.

  8. "Black voters should be seen in all of their complications, not through the lens of unelected "thought-leaders.”

  9. "Citizens are not sheep. They do not need shepherds, and even if they did I would be poorly qualified."

  10. "The idea that anyone would cast a vote because of how I am casting my vote makes my skin crawl."

  11. Against Endorsements. "This is not the record of someone who should be telling other citizens how to vote."

  12. Because I put people on the spot with these sort of Qs all the time. Seemed weak to lawyer up when it's done to me.

  13. So yeah. This ain't "feeling the Bern." It's just trying to be a decent citizen and as transparent as I can be.

  14. Addendum: No reason to be particularly excited about my personal vote. I'm gonna keep writing like I'm writing.

  15. Hope that makes some sort of sense.

  16. And given that I generally go after people for just those sorts of evasions, I don't think there was much else to do.

  17. That's between you, the ballot and (maybe) your God. Would rather have not answered the question. But it would have been evasive not to.

  18. But that's me, the citizen. Me, the writer doesn't speak for anyone else and doesn't intend to try to sway anyone else.

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