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You would eventually "drive off a cliff" with either party, as they will softlock you into never having better choices, and the overton window will keep moving to the right. The only possibility out is to vote third party.
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It's almost like the whole scenario and setup is just a dumb analogy about why the people who constantly fail are actually correct.
It's astounding that an analogy seeking describe the process of voting in a FPTP system in terms so simple a child can understand is still so consistently misunderstood by Politically Serious People.
I guess it would need to be dumbed down a little more to be truly universally digestible.
It's not that the analogy is incomprehensible, it's that it's reductive and disingenuous to the point of being nonsense, like every lib analogy.
Y'all refuse to talk about reality as it is because in the few cases where you actually know anything about the situation, you can't make a decent argument for your position without infantilizing the fuck out of the entire thing. It's all "who's Voldemort in this scenario?" and "which party is the sour kid who doesnt share their toys?". It's fucking embarrassing.
"It's nonsense that it's been pointed out that one party is promising immediate self-destruction and that not voting is enabling them!"
I see that the analogy hasn't been dumbed down enough for you to understand yet. Unfortunately, I don't think I have the capacity, personally, to make an analogy that you can digest, in that case. Perhaps a child education specialist can help.
New York City's primaries just proved that this isn't the case.
The New York primaries where the entire democrat establishment is either not mentioning Mamdani or pretending he'll make jewish babies into sausage then sell them in government stores after they gulag all the landlords? Those primaries?
The democrats have repeatedly blocked even mildly progressive voices from running, even rigging the 2020 election in favor of Biden because they were scared shitless of milquetoast Sanders. They might let a few slip in local elections, but never the big one.
They'd rather let the party lose (because their biggest donors aren't paying them to win, they're paying them to stay close enough to the GOP in platform and voters)
The more progressive candidates win local elections, the more what constitutes "the Democratic party" changes.