soul-is-caught-up-in-flames:
Itâs November 8 2016. Election Day. And you didnât vote. You knew that trump is evil âbut Hillary is just as badâ, you said. You hate both of them, so you refused to vote. âNeither deserves to winâ, you said and by the way, itâs rigged anyway, right? You refuse to play that game and you feel quite good about it. Youâre a rebel. Itâs your kind of protest against the corrupt system! Â
You come home from work, with a smile on your face. It looks like your protest works: Some of your friends also didnât vote or wrote in the name of a third candidate. You feel really good. Maybe you and your friends are enough to change the system! And if not, well, youâve seen presidents change before and it never had too many consequences in your life.Â
You sit down in front of your tv, reach for the remote and your phone buzzes. Itâs a text from one of your friends, the weird one who begged you to vote for Hillary - and your smile falls off your face âIt looks like Trump will probably win. Iâm so scared. My sister is crying.âÂ
You suddenly remember that your friendâs sister is trans.Â
You turn on the tv and you canât believe your eyes. The third candidate one of your other friends voted for is at 4%! Thatâs great, isnât it? But wait.. Hillary is currently behind Trump? By 6%? Oh. You didnât expect that.Â
 Another text. A co-worker. âTwo people called in sick. I think itâs because theyâre scared to go outside in case Trump wins..âÂ
One of your co-workers is black, one is Muslim.Â
You stare at the tv and you canât believe what you hear. âTrump won.â It was a head-at-head race and Hillary almost won - but only almost. You canât believe it. None of your friends were going to vote for him!Â
You want to go outside to think about something else - but you stop as you hear your neighbor crying on the phone. âIâm so scared iâll lose the custody right when our marriage gets annulledâ.Â
You suddenly remember that your neighbors are a gay couple with a cute little daughter.Â
But Hillary wouldâve been just as bad, right?Â
in short, vote Hillary if you care about keeping this country in one piece. Â otherwise, you better go apologize to every single minority and woman that you know on November 9th because your protest vote has put them in danger.
And remember that conservatives routinely do things to make voting harder for people to do. Redistricting, closing polls in areas with a high minority population, âpoll watchersâ. They donât want you to vote. Thatâs literally what they play on. âNot votingâ isnât going against the system, youâre playing the conservativeâs game just how they want it.
Reminder that Trump is skyrocketing in the polls, and Hillary is plummeting. He could become president. Please, for the love of all that is good, vote for Hillary if just to keep fascism at bay. Itâs going to be hard enough to try to fix this country without state sponsored hate groups roaming the streets.
I know this isnât about Britain right now but right after Brexit attacks on minorities went right up. So what OP is saying is not an exaggeration. There will be a surge in bigoted attacks on innocent people.