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If you don't like that, and you shouldn't, show up to your local meetings regularly, not just two weeks before the primary, and encourage other like minded people to do so. Doing that allows you to get the better candidates recommended in the voting guide, canvas for them, phone bank for them, etc. I'll be there waiting. In my precinct it would only take 3-4 people to tip the balance from corpo Dems to progressives, and maybe even an actual leftist, for local office and state legislative candidates. Start local and trickle up.
Or if you're already doing that, thanks and keep doing it.
But until those efforts bear fruit, when faced with a binary choice please pick the less bad one.
The problem is that even people on the left, who should be the good guys, don't want to solve these issues.
They'd rather have fascism than socialism because they don't want to pay more in taxes.
This is why they're all cool with perpetuating a culture war at the expense of the class war.
Sorry. I'm not sure if you noticed. But you didn't address the person who asked you if you're showing up to meetings, canvassing, phone banking, or anything at all, to help try to make a 3rd party viable by winning local/state elections so they can start getting members in Congress so they can have some sort of remote chance of winning the presidency.
Because anyone that votes 3rd party and ISN'T doing those things AND is whining online about a binary system, should probably be quiet and stay out of the conversation.
Oh no, I addressed him. You just don't like how I made it clear that what he is doing is a waste of time.
It's okay, keep thinking that wasting your time is doing something when it's really doing nothing. Keep getting mad at people online because they dare to say that what you're doing only exists to make you feel good about yourself.
I don't expect these problems to get solved. There are too many useful idiots focused on too many useless things in order to solve them.
and yet you write comments?
You wasted your own time in order to waste my time. bye.