This is what I was touching on in my post, the one you called absurd. Our janitor phone banks for a different party and that election doesn't lead anywhere either. Somehow this means that popular energy for change has been preserved and redirected towards something beneficial despite the mechanism for such not describe or seemingly existing. Our janitor works for a campaign that results in them getting duped by a DNC shill or they work for a campaign that admittedly results in nothing but has a book club. I'm not saying that to shit on socialist third parties, I'm okay with leaps of faith, I just don't think it's a position of pragmatic superiority. I don't think it bestows unique authority on the people that adhere to it, so they can come Hexsplain sheepdogs to everyone.