So many of us are going to die, myself probably certainly my family members

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10. Doesn't help to blame "coalition partners"

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For the record, I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I happily voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. I have never voted for a republican at any level.

But, I think we should try to understand the despair many people feel about a voting system that often presents a choice between the lesser of two evils, between bad and worse, between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. We should not be surprised when many voters fail to see a difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-doom.

We like to think that we are capable of critical thinking and advanced reasoning. That means we need to understand the weakness of the system itself and not just label people (voters) as good or bad. The system has failed. It's broken. It will continue to fail at least 50% of the time. At a time of collapse of mainstream media, when we face massive right wing propaganda, conspiracy theories, far right podcasters, the manosphere, broligarchs, and micro-plastics probably clogging our brains, simply blaming certain groups at the center, left of center, or left doesn't really help.

The challenge in a two party system is to build and maintain an informal coalition before the election. If some group "on the left" isn't turning out in high enough numbers, then the Democratic Party must come up with a strategy to "recapture" that group, without alienating some other group. And we must throw more wedge issues (like Epstein, Tariffs as "New Taxes", etc.) at the other side to weaken their coalition.