Alrighty then.

Gotta be real with you, it took several reads for this to not seem like someone ranting a conspiracy theory.

And it's still a rant even after I figured out what you were on about. Which is fine! Rant awat, it's a shitty situation for damn sure.

But you miss the point.

Here's my rant :)

The point is that we're mired in a two party system, and held there by the electoral method. The electoral college is whatever, but as long as it's the whole first-past-the-post mechanism underlying it, it really doesn't matter what the college does because nobody other than those two groups are getting in.

Which is what I'm complaining about. I'm sick of voting for the the lesser of two evils out of desperation. Whether you (or anyone) likes it or not, the DNC is only useful in comparison to the other party. Without the Republicans as a boogeyman, a supposed opposite rather than just the farthest right section, the democrats are still a bunch of capitalist assholes as whole. They're still voting for shit in Congress that's absurd, and they have been my entire life.

That the democrats are at least willing to give lip service to human rights is great, yay. But it isn't like that's been the case all along. They were just better than the "other" side.

Fuck the two party system, and fuck the electoral mechanism that allows it is what I'm saying.