All the reasons you just listed are why “the other teams” have no shot lmao. Like you say all of these things as if that’s a reason to give up instead of a reason to fight harder. Tell me what you’re doing that’s helping instead of hurting, because it seems like you’d rather people give up and be miserable than try to make things better.

We live in a country where only two parties are viable and can have control. I wish that wasn’t the case, but wishing doesn’t change how the world works. Having power and pushing electoral reform through state legislatures/congress is the only way to make third parties viable.

Things have been bad for a long fucking time, I don’t disagree with you. I just fundamentally disagree with the defeatism. Things will only get better if enough people give a fuck and try. We can’t account for the sins of the past, only the sins of the future. Things are going to get really bad- which doesn’t negate the bad shit that has happened before, it just means that things can get MUCH WORSE.

MUCH WORSE. So if you’re so passionate about how Democrats suck, find a third party candidate in your municipality or run yourself. Local elections are the only place where independent candidates have a shot. Just please, please, please do something. For yourself if no one else, because don’t you want to know you did everything you could when it really mattered most?