No matter who you vote for, it’s never a vote for the person you voted for. American votes are unique in the way that they always go to a different candidate than you intended. So if you want to vote for your candidate you have to carefully calculate which other candidate you need to vote for in order for your vote to get to the candidate you actually wish to vote for. It’s complicated so my four year old has helped me create a rudimentary chart to explain. Here the voter wanted to vote for candidate one, not knowing, that this is in actual fact a vote for candidate five. To vote for candidate 1 the voter should have voted for candidate three, but clearly the voter did not check Twitter daily for two years to know this simple fact. The voter even made a mockery of the whole voting process by voting for the candidate of his or her choice. Even if he or she didn’t do the necessary calculations he or she could have at least had a chance of the vote landing correctly by voting for any of the other candidates, now the vote was bound to land entirely differently as intended. The founding fathers did not set up this ingenious system for you to spit in their faces. Take your democratic rights seriously and vote for a candidate whose views you don’t like, don’t agree with and frankly, disgust you a little. If you like the candidate you are voting for then you know you have made a grieveous anti-democratic mistake. Thank you and God bless y’all. By the way, if God were an American citizen he’d not vote for himself, but for Satan. God understands US democracy almost as good as Alexis De Tocqueville (you don’t know the guy, but that’s ok, you’re American, keep it that way)