If Donald Trump had won the Democratic nomination, would you have voted for him?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Huh?

In what alternate universe would he have run as a Democrat?

And your friend who said she had no choice but to vote for him, since she's a Republican and he was the Republican nominee, is a good illustration of much of what is wrong with our political process.

Too many people do not take a close look at the candidates. We all should. Of course, it is that close looking that made a lot of Democrats unhappy with Hillary Clinton, but we'll gloss over that for now. In a perfect world we'd have no political parties, just candidates and elected people who do their best to fulfill their campaign promises. Which is what it was like in the first decade or so of this country, but very quickly political parties got established, and we wound up with the system we have now.

But your question does very much bring up the question of just how far any of us should be willing to go to support our party's nominee.