I need to try to justify voting for someone I strongly dislike and think will do horrible (albeit not as horrible as Trump) things in power to myself emotionally, and being constantly shrieked at that not wanting to vote for Hillary makes me a terrible person hasn't been helping with that.
I don't think people think that. As I said a little further up thread, most people on here, by virtue of who most of our posters are, have the leisure of voting how they wish and it will have little to no effect on their wellbeing. Trump isn't going to 'intentionally' f-ck up the lives of fairly well to do (or in the position to make good) white males. Other groups are not so lucky. Their vote matters because of the impact a Trump presidency through policy, or enabling rhetoric against them will have on their wellbeing. As Trump if he wins is on the ballot in 2020. And his proxies will be standing in town halls and for congress in 2018. I've never been one to think of my vote as
my vote, so perhaps I just can't see reasons to be precious about it, or to make it reflect my will exclusively.
