For the record, this is exactly how Democrats win leftist and (otherwise) abstaining votes. The ones who can’t be satisfied and will never vote D are the lying embarrassed centrists.

How dare you say they’re equally bad.

One party wants oppression, genocide, and economic ruin.

The other party merely wants to preserve FPTP so you’re “forced” to vote for one of them.

Condolences

They could shoot him in the middle of 5th Avenue and we’d find the assassin innocent.

You’re usually a pretty smart person so I’m not going back and forth reiterating that lengthy explanation. Please consider my words in earnest before the next time you vote for someone who wants you to have this dilemma.

Fun fact: everyone who doesn’t support the exact amount of genocide Harris did is actually a Russian. Especially if they’re spewing bullshit like “that crosses a line” or “Jesus Christ it’s literally genocide”.

If you keep picking lesser evil, then they keep getting more and more evil. This isn’t going to change by any mechanism other than voting differently - we don’t actually use this time between elections to organize more, especially not while moderates are out to brunch. If a party’s primary system is undemocratic, then your only choice is to vote for another party - even if that party is currently losing very badly.

The American left is losing so hard that we consider blatantly pro-corporate controlled opposition to be on our side at all. They’re not - they support FPTP because they’d rather see Greater Evil win than see Actually Good win. This has been obvious since 2000. So obvious that we say only two parties are viable, but for some mysterious reason the Democrats don’t support fixing it. Why should they?

Every national election, we’re encouraged to hold our noses, vote for the immediate short term goal, to “buy time”. We’ve squandered that time consistently and here we are now, after 40 years of iterating the ratchet effect. What should be done at that point, and every election thereafter, is to vote for someone who opposes FPTP. A vote for FPTP is a vote for Greater Evil winning in the long term, and that’s exactly what has happened.

We kept doing that and then not organizing between elections, for at least 40 years.