[mindslight]

Agreed, but at least the Democrats (or their specific donors) were smart enough to not kill the geese that lay golden eggs. Republican policy is now like "it's free meat! and killing is a natural process!"

It's hard to tell if it's more accurate to still label the Republican party as also "complete corporate sell outs", or if the real dynamic is its controlling corpos got bought by foreign interests aiming to take down the whole United States (rather than merely being content extracting wealth from the masses).

I swallowed my pride and started voting conservative (aka Democrat) in 2020, but that doesn't mean I'll stop criticizing them.

I do have to wonder if say pushing the Democratic party itself to adopt something like ranked pairs voting for primaries would be more effective than hoping for it in the finals. The idea being that as time goes on that becomes the "real" election where more people feel enfranchised from being able to express themselves, and generally happier with the results if they still have to end up supporting a compromise in the finals.

(This is assuming what's left of the Republican party doesn't dramatically reinvent itself after it's finished crashing and burning)