I voted for Jill Stein. Not because I thought she was an especially great candidate, but because I thought that making my support for Green politics show up in statistics would be more meaningful to my political priorities than voting for Hillary.
And I stand by my choice, too. I'll say it as many times as I need to. If there's going to be a villain in office, make them obvious, please. Aside from toning down the warmongering and corruption just a little bit, Obama otherwise mostly carried on with all the same things Bush did, and successfully lulled his base into trusting complacency at the same time. Meanwhile, since Trump took office, I've witnessed by far the greatest political consciousness and motivation among the general populace ever in the 20 years I've been paying attention to politics. And frankly, he hasn't actually accomplished anything worse than what Bush did besides being more personally unlikable. A fine trade-off, imo.
If you look at history, everything good that's ever happened has happened when enough people got involved in energized movements. If we had Hillary instead of Trump, I absolutely believe that the era of complacency would have continued. Everything that's been getting worse over the past 20 years would have continued to get worse, with hardly anyone paying attention just as it had been. Above all, we would have wasted another 4 years of our deadline on the environment.
The DNC can learn to actually stand for the things it claims to, or it can die. We have real movements now like never before, and the likes of Hillary and Obama are more of a threat to them than Trump is. Obama has stated multiple times that if it looks like Bernie's going to get the nomination that he will personally step up to make sure that doesn't happen. Fuck these people. They're our enemies just as much as Republicans.