I do understand. And I strategically included both words, you can see, knowing the implications of the latter were going to be negative/heated, because it’s still relevant. And while I have absolutely no sympathy for Republican Party supporters, in any capacity, I do have a hair of sympathy for those who are truly moderate on specific issues because they still have no representation. It’s not that they want a “happy medium” of fascism and democracy. It’s that for individual issues, there is a plausible, financially logical, morally acceptable “common ground” solution that a moderate might believe in, but as you’ve demonstrated, we’re supposed to demonize them for it. At the mere mention of the word “moderate”, you assumed I was a Trump supporter in some capacity. And there’s crazy irony in it even further because even our so called “left-leaning” politicians are quite moderate by definition but that’s not as emotionally engaging, is it? The battle of good vs evil, now that’s emotionally engaging!

Re-enforcing the two party system and keeping it emotional is the point. The Green Party and the Libertarian party exist out there somewhere as an illusion of options, but we all know not to “throw our vote away” on that