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This blog is not for people who are ready to vote for Donald Trump. They are a lost cause. They are the perfect example of a principle I live by: You cannot take out of a person’s mind with reason what reason didn’t put into it in the first place.

No, this blog is written to people who are hesitate to say they will vote for Hillary Clinton in November.

The first thing you need to say to yourself is that this may be the most important presidential election in our nation’s history because it will determine whether or not the mean spirit that controls radical right politics wins control of the country.

It is true that both candidates have high negatives, and neither has generated much enthusiasm around the country for their candidacy. That said, Donald Trump’s candidacy has created a character referendum this year, as much about ours as a nation as about his as a candidate.

One of our nation’s most respected historians, David McCullough, recently said of Trump: “He is unwise, he is plainly unqualified, unprepared, and he often seems unhinged. How could we possibly put our future in the hands of such a man.”

What he said is empirically verifiable. There are hundreds of news clips showing Trump saying one thing after another that is unwise and even unhinged, all of which prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is both unqualified and unprepared for the presidency.

McCullough did not say it, but he surely had to be wondering to himself as a historian how our country ever reached the point where someone like Donald Trump has become the presidential candidate of one of the two major political parties.

So if you are wondering whether or not to vote for Hillary Clinton, what David McCullough should be enough to dispel any hesitation you have. You simply must.

What he was saying comes down to this. The election is not about Hillary Clinton. It is about Donald Trump.

Were there a different Republican candidate, it would rightly be about her and that candidate. But there is no one other than Trump, and voting this fall is about him and him alone.

It is about not turning the future of our nation over to someone who will play Americans against each other, who delivers “crash and burn” rhetoric in the name of being “honest,” and who could unwittingly lead us into a nuclear holocaust.

Let me say it again: This election is not about Hillary Clinton. It is about Donald Trump.

Yet, because it is about him, it is inevitably about us, too, about what kind of nation we have become, what kind of character we now have. Do the name callers, vulgar racists, women abusers, and would-be gun slingers represent the kind of people we now are?

I don’t believe they do, and that is why all of us – all of us – cannot NOT vote for Hillary Clinton. That is what Bernie Sanders, the candidate I supported, was wise enough to say this week when he endorsed her. He said he would do everything in his power to ensure that she is the next president.

So should everyone who does not ever want to see the unthinkable – the inauguration of a President Donald Trump.

Did I mention that this election is not about Hillary Clinton, that it is about Donald Trump?

For that reason it is about one other thing. It is about you and me, about the nation we will be on Wednesday morning, November 9, 2016.