@eswag @grumble209 @benroyce @TCatInReality @Pepijn Also, it is genuinely hard and a bit dangerous to alter the Constitution. It has to pass with 2/3 of each chamber of Congress, and ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures.

@benroyce @TCatInReality @grumble209 @eswag @Pepijn The key is to not forget, and keep working to make things better.
I mean, that’s what she’s saying…

@benroyce @grumble209 @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn Choose the lesser evil until you can primary something good in. If you can’t even win a primary, what do you think is gonna happen in the general?
If you’re incredibly lucky, you lose and get the lesser evil. If not, you lose and eat shit.

@grumble209 @benroyce @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn The fact that “shitty Democrats”generally comes down to stay-the-course, “don’t change nothing,” while the best Republicans are “let’s take down everything good,” but draw the line at “burn the Constitution,” and actual Republican candidates are, “Burn It All: we have an edifice of shit to build!”
Such a hard choice.

@benroyce @grumble209 @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn And if the underlying party decides to support the MAGAt in favor of the winner of the primary? Well, you’ve seen that with Mamdani. In some sense he benefited. Although, it helped that the other post-Democrat was too corrupt for the run-of-the-mill Democrat. And the Republicans are… 🫣

@grumble209 @benroyce @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn For the most part, the “Founding Fathers” agreed with you too. Unfortunately, they just ignored how political parties arise and built the perfect Duverger’s Law structure. One way to sidestep Duverger’s Law is proportional representation(which is built on parties). Some form of preference or instant run-off voting <i>might<\i> work. Or repeated elections…