What am I voting for on November 8?

We keep reading and hearing about emails, Russian spy efforts, and pending litigation. I thought I would take a moment and share with you what I am voting FOR on November 8, rather than enumerating all the reasons I am voting AGAINST Donald Trump.

1) I am voting for workers rights and the right to unionize.
Right now, Philadelphia and the surrounding region is immobilized by a transit strike. Harvard food service workers have just ended their strike. I'm still working without a contract, along with all of my colleagues. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party are committed to the continued right to unionize, to workers' rights, and to supporting workers during this massive technology upheaval that we are facing. Kim Pearson constantly reminds us, wisely, that tomorrow's economy will not look like today's or yesterday's.

12. We need a new social contract based on the economy that is emerging, not the manufacturing economy of the past.

— Kim Pearson (@professorkim) November 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton understands this in a way that Donald Trump, and the Republican Party, does not. The GOP opposes unionization and continues to support the industries of the past, particularly fossil fuels. That said, I know that the Obama administration just signed off on additional pipelines. Nonetheless, I am much more confident that progressives can exert moral authority in a Democratically controlled Senate and in a HRC administration than in a Trump one.

2) I am voting for national parks.

The Republican platform explicitly targets public ownership and seeks to privatize national parks. The fact that the GOP seeks to undo one of the greatest achievements of one of the greatest American presidents nauseates and angers me. Roosevelt is very angry somewhere. I hope his "big stick" has a cosmic dimension.

3) I am voting for my daughters' right to their bodies and their own healthcare decisions.

We know how Donald Trump feels about women's bodies. He feels that men are entitled to them; that they are objects; that women do not have the same status as sentient subjects as he does. We know that he sees himself as a person in relationship to a number of objects. African-Americans are "his African Americans." He can "grab" what he wants to. When he "sees beautiful" he can't stop himself. I don't need to bother to link any of these, you already know them.

But I am more concerned about the Republican platform and a potential "President Pence." The Republican platform continues to advocate for the most dangerous elements of the patriarchy. It denies a woman's right to choose her reproductive future; it denies the legitimacy of same sex marriage; it denies a woman's existence as an autonomous being outside of family structures. And Mike Pence has presented himself to the Republican base as a tireless advocate for a future that bears altogether too much relationship to Margaret Atwood's "Gilead"--as a theocrat rather than as a Republican.

My daughters can not yet vote, and I lost my mother and my aunt last year, so they can not vote. So I am voting for them. I hope four other people help me out so that we aren't down three when it comes to women's rights.

These three reasons are why I am voting for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.