My view on that is that voting in a presidential election (especially if you’re not in a swing state) is primarily performative and an expression of loyalty, rather than actually influencing the outcome.

This “team loyalty” shit beyond all nuance and reason is a blight anyway. If it wasn’t stupid enough in sports or fandoms, it definitely would be in politics.

I wish third parties had received more visibility and significance long before this crap got so out of hand. I also wish FPTP would become an important part of the history of democracy, as a case study how enfranchisement alone doesn’t make a fair democracy, with the emphasis being history as in “no longer present”.

The presidential race is, unfortunately, the only thing anybody cares about.

I sometimes feel that people use the talking point of third parties starting small in local races as a way to shove them into something they don’t give two shits about so they can stop thinking about them entirely.

I feel like caring about elections at every level is a civic responsibility, and it saddens me to see that many people are so apathetic about it.