I am astounded by the reasons (more accurately, "raw feelings!") that people give for not being able to vote for Hillary Clinton. Basically, they boil down to four.
The first and most pernicious--a lie actually--is that not only is she untrustworthy, but even worse, she's totally corrupt. For this reason alone, she is basically unfit to be President. As Trump's supporters never tire of shouting, "Lock Her Up!"
The second follows almost automatically from the first. She is too guarded and therefore not authentic. In brief, she's unlikeable. She's unable to show her true feelings and thus connect with larger audiences. Once again, this makes her untrustworthy.
The third is that voting for her is merely a vote for the lesser of two evils.
A fourth is that a vote for a third party candidate is a vote for someone better who can live up to one's ideals.
Let me respond very briefly to each with the clear recognition that if one is committed fervently, then there is little that I or anyone else can say that will cause them to abandon their beliefs.
If Hillary were as corrupt as she's alleged, wouldn't 30 years be enough time to convict her? Haven't enough parties tried their damnedest to do exactly this to no avail?
Making mistakes and lapses of judgment do not make one evil. Lack of perfection is not equivalent to being evil.
Hillary is not the lesser of two evils. By virtue of her intelligence, long years of public service, depth of knowledge and experience, she is eminently qualified to be President. The same coolness and reserve for which she is so roundly criticized are the very attributes that, unlike her opponent, make her temperamentally fit to be President.
There is too much riding in this election to throw one's vote away. And sadly, that's exactly what a vote for a third-party candidate is, especially for someone who is supremely ignorant of world affairs.
I will never forgive Ralph Nader for allowing George W Bush to be elected under the false contention that there were, and are, no real differences between the two major parties. There certainly were and there are now between the two candidates.
Unfortunately, a quote--and I paraphrase-- that is attributed to Jonathan Swift sums up the matter, "You cannot reason a man out of that he was not reasoned into in the first place."
I hope fervently that there are enough people who can be reasoned beyond the falsehoods that are attributed to Hillary.