You can when everything had been handed to you until that point.

Oh I know precisely what that entails and I'm of the opinion that it's well past time.

Call me a pessimist, but at this point we're not getting out of this without a fair amount of death anyway one way or the other.

To be honest, I actually disagree with that.

Private ownership isn't the problem. CORPORATE ownership is.

When a company is no longer owned by humans and is instead owned by shareholders (who themselves are usually non-human hedgefunds, LLC's, financial firms, etc...), and being run "Boards of Directors"; fat-cats who have no idea what real life is like and are entirely beholden to a stock price.

When humanity is removed so far from the capitalist equation as they are in corporations, we've lost the plot of what capitalism was supposed to be in the first place; human's buying and selling from other human's.

I usually like to use, as an example, my best and my worst jobs. I worked for a locally owned furniture store. The owner was awesome. He built the business ground up with his family. And he was a success. He paid me fairly, gave good benefits, treated me like family. Would just randomly pass out raises if things were good because he believed in sharing success with the people that helped him achieve it.

The very reason he could do this is because he wasn't beholden to a stock price, or a Board of Directors, whose only legal mandate is to increase profit year over year. He was successful, in the multi-millionaire range. Could he have been even MORE successful (monetarily) if he didn't give raises, or benefits, or paid vacations? Sure he could have. But that's not what it was about.

Compare that to my worst job, working for a Telecom in Canada (frontline store manager, nothing major) and being told that no one was getting raises that year because the "company didn't make any money", even though I knew damn well that the company make 6 billion dollars. But the point was that, because at the beginning of the year, analysts forecast the company to make 7 billion, and because they didn't make it, the stock price was going to take a hit, and holding back raises would at least mitigate that hit a little big. (This...by the way...is the moment that fully radicalized me against corporations).

We need more of the first example and the second is the part of the system that needs to be burned to the fucking ground with extreme prejudice.

If people keep voting for any blue candidate, then there's no incentive for the Democrats to run people that will ever actually make a positive change, and things just keep sliding to the right and getting worse. I know it feels like now isn't the time to take that kind of risk, but people have been literally saying that for about 40 years now. It's a big part of why things are as bad as they are now. If people stood up to it like I was saying 20 years ago, we would never have had Trump. And because people aren't standing up to it even now, we'll probably have something worse within the next decade.

So, not voting for her is the better choice in the same way that putting disinfectant on your wound is a better choice than letting it fester, even though at first it stings a lot worse than just leaving it alone. I mean imagine saying "ahhh but this cut hurts so bad, now is the LAST time that I can afford to make it feel any worse!"...and then tomorrow you say "oh god it hurts worse now, now is REALLY not the time to make it hurt worse. I need to wait for a better opportunity at some point later...."

The best choices are rarely found by thinking only one step ahead.