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11 reasons NOT to vote for Trump

So the US presidential election is less than two days away on November 8. This post is primarily aimed at my readers in the US who  are going to be voting in the coming days. I, like most rational people in the world, hope that you don’t vote for Trump. Please vote for Clinton. I know she is not perfect, but it’s the only way to keep Trump out of the White House.

Below are 11 Reasons to vote for Clinton NOT Trump

1. 50+ Republican foreign policy and national security experts sign a letter asserting that they will not vote for Trump and believe he would be the most reckless US president in history: http://www.nytimes.com/…/national-security-letter-trump.html

2. A master list of literally hundreds of reasons to think Trump is not fit to be president: http://quantum-displacement.tumblr.com/…/anti-trump-masterp…///// Shorter Reddit version: https://www.reddit.com/…/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_w…/

3. Sam Harris articulates why Donald Trump is a dangerous candidate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az1JyDJ_iKU

4. 370 economists, including eight Nobel laureates in economics, sign a letter warning that Trump’s plan for the economy is fundamentally unsound and that he is a “dangerous, destructive choice for the country”: http://online.wsj.com/…/documen…/EconomistLetter11012016.pdf

5. Scott Alexander refutes claims that Trump is likely to keep us out of war: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/10/01/he-kept-us-out-of-war/

6. Renowned ethicist Peter Singer explains why he’s anti-Trump and urges American voters not to vote for a third-party candidate: https://www.project-syndicate.org/…/jill-stein-should-withd…

7. LessWrong founder and AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky on the “Level A and Level B” of politics and why national security experts “went into HOLY SHIT mode” over Trump: https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10154650743819228?pnref=story

8. America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny: http://nymag.com/…/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html

9. Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan explain everything wrong with Clinton and why they will still undoubtedly vote for her: https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/49-the-lesser-evil

10. Scott Alexander endorses Clinton and urges people to consider that Trump is an extremely high-variance/high-risk candidate: http://slatestarcodex.com/…/ssc-endorses-clinton-johnson-o…/

11. How political idealism leads us astray: http://www.vox.com/20…/8/4/12376522/political-idealism-enemy

Credit to Jordan Bates, co–creator of High Existence, for compiling this list

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