The quarterback reference killed me
I get you from the first post, dont get me wrong, but i am not a big defender of democracy as it is understood in modern democracies, and 1 of the several reasons is the tendency of most of the big western countries to become a bipartidist system where the 2 main parties share the power and the elections are decided more for the ones that are against the other party than the ones that vote for the party.
I hate the sentence of "useful vote" because is the excuse that the big parties promote and there is never a third alternative. I think that we should vote for who we believe they represent our closes values , also blank voting as a protest vote. That this might benefit the furthest on ideology party? Well is what it is. Another time might be the opposite
About the quarteback reference and the general tone of the message, if i understood well is that is easy for me because i am north american? Well, i had this conversations many times in my country as it happens way more often to have a 3rd (and 4th, 5th....) party that might shift elections. And i am always of the same opinion.
Besides, what happens to the US affects the whole world
Then, lets say that we should cast a useful vote and ignore the green party to stop trump. But what happens if there is a desantis type in 2028 or anothe MAGAGOP in 2032, etc... because that already happened with Bush.
Then when is the turn of the 3rd party to be allowed to be voted?
To be honest, voting for democrats would make me puke ideologically speaking even if GOP is worse