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So much this. This is a shitty game, but the only way to fix the game, is to play. Keep voting blue to beat the fascist reds, and in primaries, vote with your heart. A strong voter turnout for both will make the red party irrelevant until they move more to the center, while also pushing blue more left.
A union doesn't get better treatment by continuing to work the machines that mangle them.
I dont have much of a better answer but I'm getting tired of hearing this.
that metaphor doesn't apply. The only way you change the rules in politics is by participating in politics. Conservatives have been losing pretty hard since Biden won. If they keep trying to push messaging that doesn't get people to vote for them, then other people will try to take over and try to appeal to those same voters, but with different messaging.