Here is the ugly truth (which I hate). Nobody is coming to save the Palestinians. The Democrats won't stop the genocide and the GOP will accelerate it. Even if Jill Stein won the presidency, she would not have a single vote in the House or Senate. She would be completely powerless to do anything about Gaza. Veto? She'd get overridden in less than 24 hours. The fact is that the Palestinian genocide is not on the ballot in the US, but a whole lot of other issues are.

The struggle to reign in Israel, make them pay for their actions, force those complicit within our government and media out of power, and ultimately help survivors rebuild the nation that was brutally stolen from them is going to take a massive democratic (small d) uprising from the ground up. We need to start at the local level and work our way up. This is literally what the Republicans have done for decades and why they hold so much power.

So yes, lets fix our democracy. Let us get rid of the two party system amongst a mountain of other changes. But to do so, we have to have a democracy left to save, which we won't unless Trump and the GOP is decisively trounced this election. American Democracy, or what is left of it, has cancer. We need to cut it out.

We have too many trolley problems for a nation with limited rail transportation to solve.

Palestinian lives and women's bodies are a sacrifice gaming-chair leftists are willing to make for their sense of moral superiority.

There's a fat old man with a red hat and a gun sitting on my first switch. I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can fix the other switch while everyone else is getting run over.

It completely depends what state you are voting in. Where polling shows a certain winner, 3rd party can provide a signal for how broken the system is, and might bring a 5% threshhold durable gain for the 3rd party.

Ok now it's a trolley problem, except instead of a trolley it's a US presidential election, and instead of pulling a lever you vote

so is part of the meme that the crazy conspiracy guy is actually right? i didn't watch the show. but he is

I think you're only allowed to be this cocky if you actually pressure your party after its election. You don't do this, you forget about democracy the moment it's most important to pressure your leaders. If the dem party allowed republicans to go this far it's because they know they just have to put out some barely decent optics and then they'll be off the hook for 4 years, winning or losing.

If things are as shitty as they are it's also because of the people that wake up in time only to berate those who've been talking and protesting unheard for all these years, maybe with your voice the dem party would actually become desirable and not just the least worst option.

Maybe people will be more inclined to listen to you if you didn't treat them like mindless sheep, somewhat ironically. Politics isn't just voting, and it isn't just voting the lesser evil, doing only that is literally how fascism finds purchase in democracy and you should stop being so high and mighty defending the party responsible for this inaction for so many years