Either one and the planet is done.

He's not my cup of tea and neither is she. There is a lot of difference between them but I'm more in the mood for coffee.

Worst case: Trump wins on the wave of anti establishment sentiment.

BEST case: Status quo with more corporate handouts and little to no progressive policy action for the next 4 years while people react in shock and confusion that this person:



...isn't pushing progressive goals and is instead cozying up to the same Wall Street influences she's spent her entire career cozying up to while pursuing her extremely well established hawkish foreign policy.

Political Compass compiles the candidates charts every year by plugging in their policy positions and charting them against the full spectrum of political thought.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

That's this years chart. That simple. Clinton is only considered left relative to the MASSIVELY rightwardly skewed US political environment. Which is what your chart is taking for granted as "normal" and thus characterizing Clinton, laughably, as left of center and Sanders as as far left as it is possible for a human being to be. (So... he's a communist then? Umm no, wake up and realize how fucked you are to even look at that chart and find it credible. You've already been taken and don't even realize it.)

Since either of our candidates will defeat him.

He won't be president, for the same reason Sarah Palin isn't Vice President. The majority of voters will vote for the Democrat.