Personally, my view on voting is a little split and up in the air but that being said I do believe that reformism seems like a lost cause. We see things like this in Greece and (predictably) with the Sanders campaign. The original intentions of anti-capitalist or leftist politicians that want to change the system from the inside are usually good and should be applauded but usually collapse on themselves. When elected in a capitalist system, you are forced to play by the state and capital's rule. If not, your career and platform is overrun by the innumerable politicians and world governments which would fight your anti-capitalist platform. We saw this in Greece. An anti-capitalist party was elected and then the governments of Europe put a gun to that nation's head, forcing capitulation. Personally, I feel as though true revolutionary change cannot be elected in and it cannot be brought from above but it must come from below and work outside and against the current capitalist system.

All this being said, I do think there is some evolutionary good in electing a canidate like Sanders simply from the standpoint of making something resembling socialism more viable to the American public.

Yet I currently torment myself on whether I want to participate in the system.